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Plural of tycoon

regular plural

The plural of tycoon is tycoons.

Forms of tycoon

Singulartycoon /taɪˈkuːn/
Pluraltycoons
Countablecountable

Tycoons in a sentence

  • Sometimes even Greek shipping tycoons run out of money.1971, James A. Michener, The Drifters: A Novel, page 279
  • Whilst making spaces more green is generally a goal for town planning these days, this game in the style of classic tycoons like SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon, does the complete opposite.2025, James Binns, “This funny game mashes up Sim City and Cities Skylines to create a parking hell”, in GearNuke
  • That smacks of cozy dealings between the government and the tycoons . . . .2005 January 17, Chaim Estulin, “Hong Kong's New Culture”, in Time. From the entry big business
  • American private equity tycoons are profiteering from the global climate crisis by investing in fossil fuels that are driving greenhouse gas emissions, a new investigation reveals.2022 February 15, Nina Lakhani, “Private equity’s dirty dozen: the 12 US firms funding dirty energy projects”, in The Guardian, archived…. From the entry private equity

Meaning of tycoon

  1. noun A wealthy and powerful business person.
  2. noun A business simulator game, typically involving building and managing some form of infrastructure.
  3. noun A game involving the use of a base to generate bricks and cash (similar to an idle game or clicker game), which can then be used to purchase upgrades and expand. Common within the massively multiplayer online game platform Roblox.

Full definition of tycoon

Questions about the plural of tycoon

What is the plural of tycoon?
The plural of tycoon is tycoons.
Is tycoon countable?
Tycoon is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tycoon (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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