Taipan Definition
- Oxyuranus scutellatus
Other Word Forms of Taipan
Noun
Origin of Taipan
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Cantonese daai6 baan1 eminent businessman, head of a firm Cantonese, daai6 big, great (from Middle Chinese tfiaj`) (also the source of Mandarin dà) Cantonese baan1 class (from Middle Chinese paːn division, class honcho)
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From the name of the Thaypan tribe of Aboriginal people of central Cape York Peninsula, Queensland, Australia.
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Wik-Mungkan (Pama-Nyungan language of northeast Australia) dhay-ban
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
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From Mandarin 大班 (dàbān, “big shot, rich businessman").
From Wiktionary
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