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Taipan vs Daimyo - What's the difference?

taipan | daimyo |

As nouns the difference between taipan and daimyo

is that taipan is a foreign businessman in china; a tycoon or taipan can be any venomous elapid snake of the genus oxyuranus , found in australia and new guinea while daimyo is a lord during the japanese feudal period.

taipan

English

Etymology 1

(wikipedia) From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) (historical) * (l) * (l) (historical)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A foreign businessman in China; a tycoon.
  • * 1922 , , "The Taipan":
    • 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.
  • * 1977 , , The Honourable Schoolboy , Folio Society 2010, p. 438:
    • The British taipans stood in one sodden circle with their womenfolk, like bored officers at a garrison get-together.
    Usage notes
    Relatively narrow usage, and somewhat dated (early/mid 20th century); primarily known outside of China due to use in fiction set in Hong Kong, notably The Taipan'' (1922) by (Somerset Maugham) and '' (1966) by (James Clavell). Even in Hong Kong, the more globally widespread (and distantly related) (m) is more common today.
    Related terms
    * tycoon

    Etymology 2

    (wikipedia taipan) From the name of the Thaypan tribe of Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any venomous elapid snake of the genus Oxyuranus , found in Australia and New Guinea.
    • Derived terms
    * Central Ranges taipan * coastal taipan * inland taipan * Papuan taipan

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    daimyo

    English

    Alternative forms

    * daimio

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • A lord during the Japanese feudal period.

    • See also

    * samurai * shogun