Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate.
- noun Used formerly as a title for a Japanese shogun.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The title by which the shoguns of Japan were known to foreigners from the signing of the treaty negotiated in 1854 by Commodore Matthew Perry, on behalf of the United States, and Iyesada, the shogun and supposed “temporal emperor “of Japan, to the end of the shogunate in 1868, but never recognized by the Japanese.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
wealthy andpowerful business person.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a very wealthy or powerful businessman
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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With a net worth of $1.75 billion -- up from $1.06 billion a year ago -- the tycoon is No. 37 on this year's list of India's richest people.
The Next Act Anuradha Raghunathan 2010
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Because while the 26-year-old internet tycoon is estimated to be worth $6. 9bn, he is a paper billionaire.
The real problem isn't banks, it's investors Phillip Inman 2010
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November 2nd, 2009 Virgin tycoon SIR RICHARD BRANSON has deserted his efforts to sinecure a heroic commander of a miraculous Hudson River craft pile-up for his intergalactic spaceship mission.
Hero pilot Sullenberger jokes about marital boost in NBC 'People ... admin 2009
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With a net worth of $1.75 billion -- up from $1.06 billion a year ago -- the tycoon is No. 37 on this year's list of India's richest people.
The Next Act Anuradha Raghunathan 2010
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The media tycoon is worth £1. 3bn but he has little time for his fellow Russian oligarchs
Alexander Lebedev: profile Mark Tran 2010
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November 2nd, 2009 Virgin tycoon SIR RICHARD BRANSON has deserted his efforts to sinecure a heroic commander of a miraculous Hudson River craft pile-up for his intergalactic spaceship mission.
Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009
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She begins to correspond with club members and, after deciding to visit them, becomes enmeshed in their lives – though a handsome American publishing tycoon is courting her back in London.
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She begins to correspond with club members and, after deciding to visit them, becomes enmeshed in their lives – though a handsome American publishing tycoon is courting her back in London.
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She begins to correspond with club members and, after deciding to visit them, becomes enmeshed in their lives – though a handsome American publishing tycoon is courting her back in London.
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Ex-record-label tycoon sold his Zomba Recordings , onetime label for Britney Spears, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync, to BMG for $2.7 billion in 2002.
In Pictures: The U.K.'s Billionaires Paul Maidment 2006
liu_xing commented on the word tycoon
= big (gentle)man. (from Chinese) (This is possibly cheating as it might have come via Japanese)
January 23, 2007
bilby commented on the word tycoon
As a child I used to get this mixed up with typhoon.
February 13, 2024