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tycoon

/taɪˈkuːn/

tycoon noun: a wealthy and powerful business person.

Noun

tycoon (plural tycoons)

  1. A wealthy and powerful business person.
    • Dagobert had only one customer, an American who wore square, rimless glasses and a beige suit and looked like a Wall Street tycoon.1956, Delano Ames, chapter 24, in Crime out of Mind
    • Sometimes even Greek shipping tycoons run out of money.1971, James A. Michener, The Drifters: A Novel, page 279
  2. A business simulator game, typically involving building and managing some form of infrastructure.
    • Zoo Tycoon is only one of several "tycoon" types of games, such as Railroad Tycoon, Rollercoaster Tycoon, Pizza Tycoon, and, without the "tycoon" title, but with all the fun and challenge, The Movies.2007 May 17, Rusel Demaria, Reset: Changing the Way We Look at Video Games, National Geographic Books
    • 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
    Synonyms:
    tycoon game
  3. 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.
    • Tycoons / A game in which users build up some sort of business by earning money over time and then using that money on upgrades.2013, Brandon LaRouche, Intermediate ROBLOX Lua Programming, Double Trouble Studio, →ISBN, page 172
    • In most tycoons, you will find an automatic machine called a dropper, which is used for producing bricks.2017, Christina Majaski, The Ultimate Unofficial Guide to Robloxing: Everything You Need to Know to Build Awesome Games!, New York, N.Y.: Sky Pony Press, →ISBN, page 65
    Synonyms:
    tycoon game
  4. The first placer of Tycoon.
    Antonyms:
    beggar

Proper noun capitalized: Tycoon

Tycoon

  1. A Japanese shedding game
    Synonyms:
    Daifugō

tycoon meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali

tycoon in Hindi

टाइकून, टाइकुन

tycoon in Tamil

பெரும்புள்ளி, தொழில் அதிபர்

tycoon in Urdu

بڑا سیٹھ

tycoon in Bengali

টাইকুন, ধনকুবের
More languagesFewer languages
tycoon in Telugu
టైకోన్
tycoon in Malayalam
ധനാഢ്യനായ വ്യവസായമേധാവി, വൻവ്യവസായി, പ്രബലൻ, വലിയ വ്യവസായമുതലാളി
tycoon in Kannada
ಟಾಯಕೂನ್
tycoon in Punjabi
ਟਾਇਕੂਨ
tycoon in Gujarati
ટાયકૂન, ટાઇકૂન
tycoon in Odia
ଟାଇକୁନ, ଟାଇକୂନ
tycoon in Nepali
टाइकुन, टाइकून, टाइकोन
tycoon in Vietnamese
trùm tư bản, vua tư bản, tài phiệt

Examples of tycoon in a sentence

  • In my opinion, tycoons are great to create as your first game, but they take time to learn!2019, Roblox Guide to Success and Dominating the World of Roblox, Ro Books, →ISBN, page 13:
  • These experiences have fallen somewhat out of favor because once a tycoon is complete and all items are unlocked, there is not much of an incentive to continue playing.2022, Zander Brumbaugh, Coding Roblox Games Made Easy, 2nd edition, Packt, →ISBN, page 217:
  • The next most common game that we see inside Roblox are Tycoons.2022, Heath Haskins, The Advanced Roblox Coding Book: An Unofficial Guide, Updated Edition: Learn How to Script Games, Code Objects and...

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Forms of tycoon

pluraltycoons

Plural of tycoon: tycoons

Origin of tycoon

Borrowed from Japanese 大君 (“great lord, prince”), a title for the shōgun. Related to taipan, from Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹). The game sense was derived from the use of tycoon in titles of games in which one plays a tycoon (e.g., RollerCoaster Tycoon).

Words formed from tycoon

Phrases with tycoon

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Questions about tycoon

What does tycoon mean?
Tycoon means a wealthy and powerful business person.
What is tycoon in Hindi?
Tycoon in Hindi is टाइकून, टाइकुन. See Tycoon meaning in Hindi.
How do you use tycoon in a sentence?
In my opinion, tycoons are great to create as your first game, but they take time to learn!
What part of speech is tycoon?
Tycoon can be a noun or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce tycoon?
Tycoon is pronounced /taɪˈkuːn/.
What is the plural of tycoon?
The plural of tycoon is tycoons.

Words near tycoon in the dictionary

  1. tychopelagic
  2. tychoplankton
  3. tychoplanktonic
  4. tychoplanktons
  5. tychopotamic
  6. tycoon
  7. tycoon game
  8. tycoon games
  9. tycoonate
  10. tycoonates
  11. tycoonery

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: tycoon (page history and authors); Tycoon (page history and authors); tycoon (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tycoon (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tycoon (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tycoon (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); tycoon (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tycoon (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); tycoon (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tycoon (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tycoon (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tycoon (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); tycoon (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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