TAIPAN


Meaning of TAIPAN in English

I. ˈtī-ˌpan, ˈtī-ˈpän noun

Etymology: Chinese (Guangdong) daaih-bāan, from daaih big + bāan class

Date: 1834

: a powerful businessman and especially formerly a foreigner living and operating in Hong Kong or China

II. ˈtī-ˌpan noun

Etymology: Wik Munkan (Australian aboriginal language of northern Queensland) dhayban

Date: 1933

: an exceedingly venomous elapid snake ( Oxyuranus scutellatus ) of northern Australia and New Guinea ; also : a related snake ( O. microlepidotus )

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.