taipan
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 8
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of taipan
3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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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.”
“The British taipans stood in one sodden circle with their womenfolk, like bored officers at a garrison get-together.”
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noun
-
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.”
“The British taipans stood in one sodden circle with their womenfolk, like bored officers at a garrison get-together.”
- (Philippines)A tycoon (usually of Chinese Filipino background)
- Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus, found in Australia and New Guinea.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Cantonese 大班 (daai⁶ baan¹, “big shot, rich businessman”), originally as taepan. Related to tycoon, from Japanese 大君(たいくん) (taikun).
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