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taepan

taepan is the archaic form of taipan.

Meaning of taipan

Noun (1)

taipan (plural taipans)

  1. Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.

Noun (2)

taipan (plural taipans)

  1. A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon.
    • Of course it was very sad, but the taipan could hardly help a smile when he thought how many of these young fellows he had drunk underground.1922, W. Somerset Maugham, The Taipan
  2. (Philippines) A tycoon (usually of Chinese Filipino background)

Forms of taepan

pluraltaepans

Questions about taepan

What is taepan the archaic form of?
Taepan is the archaic form of taipan.

Words near taepan in the dictionary

  1. taenite
  2. taenites
  3. taenoid
  4. Taensa
  5. Taensas
  6. taepan
  7. taepans
  8. taepyeongso
  9. taf
  10. tafamidis
  11. Tafarnaubach

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Adapted from Wiktionary: taepan (page history and authors); taipan (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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