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tycoon|taɪˈkuːn|
Also taikun.
[ad. Jap. taikun great lord or prince, f. Chinese ta great + kiun prince.]
1. The title by which the shogun of Japan was described to foreigners.
1857T. Harris Diary 28 Oct. (1930) 406 Today, I am told Ziogoon is not the proper appellation of their ruler, but that it is Tykoon. Ziogoon is literally ‘Generalissimo’ while Tykoon means ‘Great Ruler’. 1858Times 9 Nov. 7/1 This treaty, in the first place, engages that there shall be perpetual peace and friendship between Her British Majesty and the Tycoon of Japan. 1863Alcock (title) The Capital of the Tycoon: A narrative of a three years' residence in Japan. Ibid. II. 491 The name by which this officer is commonly known is ‘the Tycoon of Japan’. 1875W. E. Griffis in N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 287 There never was but one emperor in Japan, the Shogun was military usurper, and the bombastic title ‘Tycoon’ a diplomatic fraud. 1881Sir R. Alcock in Encycl. Brit. XIII. 584/2 The title of taikun (often misspelt tycoon) was then for the first time used; it..was employed for the occasion by the Tokugawa officials to convey the impression that their chief was in reality the lord paramount. 1887L. Oliphant Episodes (1888) 186 Soldiers of the Tycoon, or Temporal Emperor [of Japan], as he was then [1861] called.
2. An important or dominant person, esp. in business or politics; a magnate. Also attrib. orig. U.S. (as a nickname of Abraham Lincoln).
1861J. Hay Diary 25 Apr. in Lincoln & Civil War (1939) 12 Gen. Butler has sent an imploring request to the President to be allowed to bag the whole nest of traitorous Maryland Legislators. This the Tycoon..forbade. 1886Outing (U.S.) IX. 164/1 The tycoon of the baggage car objected to handling the boat. 1926Time 14 June 32/3 Married. Fred W. Fitch, 56, rich hair-tonic tycoon. 1947Auden Age of Anxiety (1948) 36 With diamonds to offer, A cleaned tycoon in a cooled office, I smiled at a siren. 1952Manch. Guardian Weekly 3 July 7/3 Warren has..been the preferred choice of..oil and aviation tycoons with delusions of grandeur. 1958[see tycoonish a.]. 1960R. W. Marks Dymaxion World of B. Fuller 62/1 Pictures of his latest projects appear regularly on the front cover of the magazines which symbolize the tycoon press. 1982M. Russell Rainblast iii. 21 She has a thing going with Marcus Hicks, the stores tycoon.
Hence tyˈcoonate, the office or dignity of a tycoon or the tycoons; tyˈcoonery [-ery], the behaviour or status of a tycoon or tycoons; a group of businessmen; tycooˈness, a female tycoon (sense 2); tyˈcoonish a., characteristic of a tycoon (sense 2); tyˈcoonism, the system of temporal government by the tycoon; tyˈcoonship, the status or position of a tycoon (sense 2); the fact of being a tycoon.
1863Alcock Capital Tycoon I. v. 135 The ‘Tycoonat’, created by the strong arm and determined will of Taikosama. 1876E. W. Clark Life Japan 128 Shidz-u-o-ka..became the St. Helena of Tycoonism. 1956Time 24 Dec. 47/2 Instead of making a budget, Falk decided to indulge in a bit of extracurricular tycoonery. 1958Times 3 Dec. 6/4 Tycoons are not quite as tycoonish as they were before. 1959Ibid. 19 Nov. 15/5 This immensely long..novel gives us a new Tom Sawyer and takes him up to tycoonery. 1960Guardian 28 Oct. 8/4 A high-powered tycooness must have sharp claws within the velvet paw. 1962Punch 26 Sept. 443/3 The Express group stands alone among the major press tycooneries. 1964R. Ward Penguin Bk. Austral. Ballads 15 Rugged individualists separately thrusting their ways..to an industrial tycoon-ship. 1965‘R. Erskine’ Passion Flowers in Business iv. 48, I..thought it tycoonish in an exciting way. 1970‘D. Halliday’ Dolly & Cookie Bird viii. 119 Janey's father..had.. several irritating habits of tycoonery. 1976‘M. Innes’ Gay Phoenix iii. 43 Business affairs... A high degree of continuity in their direction was..a sine qua non of successful tycoonship. 1983Listener 27 Oct. 34/3 He was busy trying to set up a rival consortium to buy the Sunday Times, competing with (and losing to) Murdoch in tycoonery. |