tycoon

A wealthy and powerful businessperson or industrialist; a magnate.

Used formerly as a title for a Japanese shogun.

The title by which the shoguns of Japan were known to foreigners from the signing of the treaty negotiated in 1854 by Commodore Matthew Perry, on behalf of the United States, and Iyesada, the shogun and supposed “temporal emperor “of Japan, to the end of the shogunate in 1868, but never recognized by the Japanese.

The title by which the shogun, or former commander in chief of the Japanese army, was known to foreigners.

A wealthy and powerful business person.

a very wealthy or powerful businessman