tycoon

noun

ty·​coon tī-ˈkün 

1

a

: a businessperson of exceptional wealth, power, and influence : magnate

b

: a top leader (as in politics)

2

: shogun

Synonyms

• baron
• captain
• czar
• tsar
• tzar
• king
• lion
• lord
• magnate
• mogul
• monarch
• Napoleon
• prince

Examples of tycoon in a Sentence

an oil tycoon who's widely considered the most powerful man in the county

Recent Examples on the Web

Since 2020, when the e-commerce tycoon launched the $10 billion Earth Fund, Bezos has tried to remake himself as a major climate philanthropist even as Amazon’s greenhouse gas emissions skyrocketed. —Justine Calma, The Verge, 15 Apr. 2024

Former Trump Victory finance chair Todd Ricketts, energy mogul Harold Hamm, aerospace executive Robert Bigelow, hedge fund manager Robert Mercer and his daughter Rebekah Mercer and casino tycoon Phil Ruffin are also among the co-chairs, the invitation said. —Soo Rin Kim, ABC News, 6 Apr. 2024

In the season one finale of the comedy, which aired on Aug. 12, 2022, Molly declared plans to give away every penny of her $120 billion divorce settlement from tech tycoon John Novak (Adam Scott) after a publicly embarrassing business blunder. —Brande Victorian, The Hollywood Reporter, 4 Apr. 2024

On one side are a scheming tycoon and his team of regulation plug-uglies. —Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 21 Mar. 2024

Once there, the real estate tycoon broke with orthodox economic doctrine by using the guise of national security to slap tariffs on foreign steel and renegotiating NAFTA. —Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 11 Mar. 2024

After being slated for release in 2011, the oil tycoons were reconvicted on embezzlement and money laundering charges in 2010, extending their sentence through 2016. —Devin Sean Martin, Forbes, 29 Mar. 2024

Between 1924 and 1936, publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst installed not one but two pools at his famed Hearst Castle in San Simeon, Calif., and by the 1950s, no self-respecting business mogul or Hollywood star could live without one. —The Editors, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2024

The industrial tycoons who used to winter in the village have now been replaced by standardbred race horses. —Trudy Haywood Saunders, Travel + Leisure, 26 Mar. 2024

Word History

Etymology

Japanese taikun

First Known Use

1857, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Kids Definition

tycoon

noun

ty·​coon tī-ˈkün 

: a very wealthy and powerful business person

Etymology

Japanese taikun "shogun"