Meaning

4 senses
  1. A wealthy and powerful business person.

    Magnat, Tycoon, Mogul

    магна́тmagnát

    магна́тmahnát

    a very wealthy or powerful businessperson

  2. A business simulator game, typically involving building and managing some form of infrastructure.

  3. A game involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game), which can then be used to purchase upgrades and expand. Common within the massively multiplayer online game platform Roblox.

  4. The first placer of Tycoon.

Examples

9 sentences
  1. Tom is a tycoon.

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  2. He's a tycoon.

    ruОн магнат.

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  3. Sami's father was a business tycoon.

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  4. The clinic was built by a business tycoon.

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  5. The tycoon endowed each son with a million dollars.

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Translations

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Origin

Borrowed from Japanese 大君 (“great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipa

Borrowed from Japanese 大君 (“great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹). The game sense was derived from the use of tycoon in titles of games in which one plays a tycoon (e.g., RollerCoaster Tycoon).

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Forms

plural: tycoons
Singulartycoon
Pluraltycoons

regular

Synonyms

9 synonyms

Antonyms

1 antonyms

Word family

7 related words

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
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