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tycoon
What does tycoon mean?
tycoon (noun): a wealthy and powerful business person.
Definition: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
How do you use tycoon in a sentence?
- Investors were impressed by the real estate tycoon's strategy. (Tatoeba sentence #12867098 by AlanF_US, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce tycoon?
/taɪˈkun/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does tycoon come from?
Borrowed from Japanese 大君 (“great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
What are synonyms of tycoon?
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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a wealthy and powerful business person
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