tycoon

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• /taɪˈkuːn/
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Borrowed from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun, “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).

64 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Basque: handiki — wealthy, powerful business person
• Bulgarian: магнат (magnat) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Catalan: magnat — wealthy, powerful business person
• Chinese Mandarin: 大亨 (dàhēng) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Chinese Mandarin: 巨頭 /巨头 (jùtóu) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Chinese Mandarin: 財閥 /财阀 (cáifá) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Chinese Mandarin: 大款 (dàkuǎn) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Czech: magnát — wealthy, powerful business person
• Danish: magnat — wealthy, powerful business person
• Danish: matador — wealthy, powerful business person
• Dutch: magnaat — wealthy, powerful business person
• Dutch: tycoon — wealthy, powerful business person
• Dutch: taikoen — wealthy, powerful business person
• Esperanto: magnato — wealthy, powerful business person
• Estonian: magnaat — wealthy, powerful business person
• Estonian: suurtööstur — wealthy, powerful business person
• Finnish: pohatta — wealthy, powerful business person
• Finnish: suurliikemies — wealthy, powerful business person
• Finnish: suuraatelinen — wealthy, powerful business person
• Finnish: magnaatti — wealthy, powerful business person
• French: magnat — wealthy, powerful business person
• French: tycoon — wealthy, powerful business person
• German: Magnat — wealthy, powerful business person
• German: Tycoon — wealthy, powerful business person
• German: Mogul — wealthy, powerful business person
• German: Manager — wealthy, powerful business person
• Greek: μεγαλοεπιχειρηματίας (megaloepicheirimatías) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Greek: βασιλιάς (vasiliás) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Greek: μεγιστάνας (megistánas) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Hebrew: טַיְיקוּן (taykún) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Hebrew: אֵיל הוֹן (ēl hon) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Hungarian: iparmágnás — wealthy, powerful business person
• Icelandic: auðjöfur — wealthy, powerful business person
• Ido: nabobo — wealthy, powerful business person
• Ido: magnato — wealthy, powerful business person
• Italian: magnate — wealthy, powerful business person
• Italian: capitano d'industria — wealthy, powerful business person
• Italian: mogol — wealthy, powerful business person
• Italian: mogul — wealthy, powerful business person
• Italian: tycoon — wealthy, powerful business person
• Japanese: 巨頭 (kyotō) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Japanese: 大立者 (ōdatemono) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Japanese: 実力者 (jitsuryokusha) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Kazakh: шонжар (şonjar) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Korean: 거물 (geomul) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Manx: ard-ghelleyder — wealthy, powerful business person
• Norwegian Bokmål: magnat — wealthy, powerful business person
• Norwegian Bokmål: tycoon — wealthy, powerful business person
• Norwegian Nynorsk: magnat — wealthy, powerful business person
• Polish: magnat — wealthy, powerful business person
• Portuguese: magnata — wealthy, powerful business person
• Romanian: magnat — wealthy, powerful business person
• Russian: магна́т (magnát) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Serbo-Croatian: та̀јкӯн — wealthy, powerful business person
• Serbo-Croatian: ма̀гна̄т — wealthy, powerful business person
• Serbo-Croatian: tàjkūn — wealthy, powerful business person
• Serbo-Croatian: màgnāt — wealthy, powerful business person
• Spanish: magnate — wealthy, powerful business person
• Spanish: pez gordo — wealthy, powerful business person
• Swedish: magnat — wealthy, powerful business person
• Ukrainian: магна́т (mahnát) — wealthy, powerful business person
• Vietnamese: trùm tư bản — wealthy, powerful business person
• Vietnamese: vua tư bản — wealthy, powerful business person
• Vietnamese: tài phiệt — wealthy, powerful business person