tycoon
English
/taɪˈkuːn/
noun
Definitions
- A wealthy and powerful business person.
Etymology
Borrowed from Japanese 大君 (great prince, great lord prince).
Origin
Japanese
大君
Gloss
great prince, great lord prince
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- crat English
- tycooness English
- tycoonocracy English
- tycoonocrat English
- 君 Japanese
- 大 Japanese
- 大君 Japanese
- טייקון Hebrew (modern)