Akademik

ty|coon «ty KOON», noun.

1. Informal. an important person in a (specified) business or industry; one having great wealth and power: »

a financial tycoon, a gathering of shipping tycoons.

2. a person of equivalent importance in any (specified) realm: »

a political tycoon, a labor tycoon.

3. the title given by foreigners to the former hereditary commanders in chief of the Japanese army; shogun.

╂[< Japanese taikun < Chinese tai great + kiun lord]