Tycoon

Definition: Tycoon

Tycoon

Noun

1. A very wealthy or powerful businessman: "an oil baron".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "tycoon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1873. (references)

Synonyms: Tycoon

Master

Ceasar, kaiser, czar, tsar, sultan, soldan, grand Turk, caliph, imaum, shah, padishah, sophi, mogul, great mogul, khan, lama, tycoon, mikado, tenno, inca, cazique; voivode; landamman; seyyid; Abuna, cacique, czarowitz, grand seignior.

Crosswords: Tycoon

The Tycoon (1964)

Tycoon (1947)

Zoo Tycoon (2001)

RollerCoaster Tycoon (1999)

Railroad Tycoon 2 (1998)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Matt Caldwell: Texas Tycoon (Silhouette Special Edition, 1297) (reference)

• Railroad Tycoon, II: Master Strategies for Empire Builders (reference)

• Sudden Turn (Rollercoaster Tycoon, 1) (reference)

• The Irresistible Tycoon (Harlequin Presents, No. 2281) (reference)

• Tuxedo Park: A Wall Street Tycoon and the Secret Palace of Science That Changed the Course of World War II (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• Last Tycoon (reference)

• The Greek Tycoon (reference)

• Tycoon (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

High Tech

• Zoo Tycoon (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Engraving after an artwork by J.O. Davidson, published in "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War", Volume I, page 489. It shows six transports at Pittsburg Landing shortly after the Battle of Shiloh, in April 1862. The original caption reads: "Of the six transports, the one farthest up stream, on the right, is the Tycoon, which was dispatched by the Cincinnati Branch of the Sanitary Commission with stores for the wounded. The next steamer is the Tigress, which was General Grant's headquarters boat during the Shiloh campaign. On the opposite side of the river is seen the gun-boat Tyler. Credit: NAVY.

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Expression using "tycoon": oil tycoon. Additional references.

Beginning with "tycoon": tycoon-failing, tycoon-proof.

Ending with "tycoon": anti-tycoon.

Albanian

manjat (Baron, magnate). (various references)

Arabic 

‏من ملوك المال, ‏مليونير (millionaire), ‏زعيم قوي. (various references)

Bulgarian 

магнат (king, magnate). (various references)

Chinese 

財閥 (financial magnate, plutocrat), 巨� � (magnet), 大富翁 (Tycoons). (various references)

Czech

obchodní magnát. (various references)

Farsi 

سرمایه دارخیلی مهم , ادم بانفوذوپولدار. (various references)

Finnish

teollisuuspomo (captain of industry), pomo (big gun, boss), pamppu (staff, truncheon). (various references)

French

ponte, magnat de l'industrie, magnat, homme d'affaires important. (various references)

German

Manager (executive, manager, managers, tycoons). (various references)

Greek 

μεγιστάνασ (grandee, magnate), επιχειρηματικόσ μεγιστάνασ, επιχειρηματίασ μεγάλοσ. (various references)

Hebrew 

איל �"�"ון (magnate, mogul). (various references)

Hungarian

iparmágnás (captain of industry). (various references)

Italian

magnate (magnate). (various references)

Korean 

다이쿤 (Tycoons). (various references)

Manx

ard-ghelleyder. (various references)

Pig Latin

ycoontay

Portuguese

magnata (king, magnate, mugwump). (various references)

Romanian

mare industriaş, magnat (king, Lord, magnate). (various references)

Russian 

промышленный магнат. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

japanski vrhovni komandant, bogat industrijalac. (various references)

Spanish

magnate (Baron, captain of industry, magnate, mogul). (various references)

Swedish

pamp (big cheese, big wheel, bigwig, nob, panjandrum, swell, worthy), magnat (grandee, king, Lord, magnate, overlord). (various references)

Turkish

zengin iş adamı, kral (Baron, king, monarch, Rex, sovereign), kodaman (a big gun, a big wheel, big bug, big cheese, big gun, big noise, big shot, bigwig, magnate, swell, worthy). (various references)

Ukrainian

магнат (king, magnate, mogul, nabob). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "tycoon": tycoons. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Tycoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Otocyon, Tilcon, tocyon, tyco, tyhoon, Tymon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: conto, cyton, toyon.

-2 letters: cony, coon, coot, onto, tony, toon, toyo.

-3 letters: con, coo, cot, coy, noo, not, oot, ton, too, toy, yon.

-4 letters: no, on, oy, to, yo.

+1 letter: cottony, tycoons.

+2 letters: cartoony, cryotron, gonocyte, monocyte, myotonic, octonary, oxytocin.

+3 letters: coenocyte, colocynth, cotyledon, cryotrons, cyclotron, cytotoxin, gonocytes, hypotonic, monocytes, monocytic, monotypic, mycotoxin, noncounty, oxytocins, toponymic.

+4 letters: actomyosin, boycotting, choanocyte, coenocytes, coenocytic, colocynths, commonalty, conformity, conjointly, consistory, cotyledons, craniotomy, cyclotrons, cytotoxins, dicynodont, iconolatry, invocatory, mycetozoan, mycotoxins, noncountry, syncopator, technology.

+5 letters: actomyosins, antiboycott, choanocytes, chronometry, combinatory, comminatory, commonality, condolatory, condylomata, consolatory, consonantly, controversy, cosignatory, counterploy, cyproterone, dicotyledon, dicynodonts, endocytoses, endocytosis, endocytotic, gonadectomy, incommodity, isotonicity, monocrystal, monozygotic, mycetozoans, octagonally, pinocytoses, pinocytosis, pinocytotic, retinoscopy, synchrotron, syncopation, syncopators, toponymical, totipotency.