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A very wealthy or powerful businessman
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mogul
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Word definitions for mogul in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"powerful person," 1670s, from Great Mogul , Mongol emperor of India after the conquest of 1520s, from Persian and Arabic mughal , mughul , alteration of Mongol (q.v.), the Asiatic people.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. a rich or powerful person; a magnate Etymology 2 n. a hump or bump on a skiing piste
Usage examples of mogul.
One of the speakers was relating how a very famous advertising mogul insisted that every radio creative meeting be attended by artists as well as copywriters.
How had Baff, your average minnow, mortally offended a marina mogul to earn that doom?
Once, when he was a mogul of bean-counting, when he was peeing strongly, when he was fucking Jo on his desk, her legs bifurcated eagerly, he tried to buy the house up in the bracken, which has its own path to the cove.
Trebizond escaped, apparently by the dexterous politics of the sovereign, but it acknowledged the Mogul supremacy.
Abu Ra Kapur, of the Kapur Khatri family of Kotli in Lahore, Punjab, whose descendants served in turn the Mogul emperors and the British government.
Mogul Zodiac closed his latches with an exquisite fingertip, the drive started to rise.
Newspaper mogul Richard Mellon Scaife invited Ruddy to write for one of his papers, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review.
None rang a bell until Savannah bragged about having been to the home of hip-hop music mogul Taye Rollins at least twice.
Although these vessels lacked the large holds in which to carry bulky cargoes, they dealt in the goods of higher value: copper and gum arabic, pearls and mother-of-pearl shells from the Red Sea, ivory from the markets of Zanzibar, sapphires from the mines of Kandy, yellow diamonds from the alluvial field along the great rivers of the empire of the Moguls, and cakes of black opium from the mountains of the Pathans.
Zingis, the Moguls were informed of the name and manners of the Samoyedes in the neighborhood of the polar circle, who dwelt in subterraneous huts, and derived their furs and their food from the sole occupation of hunting.
The big Mogul and the freight were still held, and now it was much after seven, and Argenta all astir.
The best markets are still Zanzibar, the factories on the Coromandel Coast or at Bombay in the realm of the Great Mogul.
He describes with truth and elegance the settlement and manners of the Moguls of Persia, but he is ignorant of their origin, and corrupts the names of Zingis and his sons.
The pair walked down to the street with the mogul from Poverty Bow and stepped out of the Gotham into the dwindling afternoon.
She body of missing business mogul Devon Greenway was found by authorities at a North Hollywood motel.