The Collaborative International Dictionary
Mogul \Mo*gul"\, n. [From the Mongolian.]
A person of the Mongolian race.
Specifically: Any of the Mongolian peoples who conquered parts of India and established an empire lasting from 1526 to 1857. Also, any of their descendents.
(Railroad) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.
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A great personage; magnate; autocrat; as, an industrial mogul.
Great Mogul, or Grand Mogul, the sovereign of the empire founded in Hindustan by the Mongols under Baber in the sixteenth century. Hence, a very important personage; a lord; -- sometimes only mogul or Moghul.
--Dryden.
Usage examples of "great mogul".
A wide latitude of non-effectives was allowed by the Great Mogul for his own pride and the benefit of his officers.
But being around this Spanish gentlewoman made him want to go back to Shahjahanabad and enlist in the service of the Great Mogul once more.
Let me offer you the hospitality of my humble abode and a mug of whisky, and you can tell me all you know about this pretty little war that's a-going on between the great Mogul and the Prester.
He moves secretly from the conclaves of the English East India Company in Bombay to the court of the Great Mogul in Delhi, from the bosom of the Sublime Porte to the Emperor's cabinet in Peking.
It was reported that a vessel belonging to the Great Mogul, laden with treasure and bearing the monarch's own daughter upon a holy pilgrimage to Mecca (they being Mohammedans), had fallen in with the pirates, and after a short resistance had been surrendered, with the damsel, her court, and all the diamonds, pearls, silk, silver, and gold aboard.
It was rumored that the Great Mogul, raging at the insult offered to him through his own flesh and blood, had threatened to wipe out of existence the few English settlements scattered along the coast.
Then men will give it a name, like the Great Mogul or the Orloff or the Shah, and legends will be woven around it.
Instead of three or four thousand elephants, which the Great Mogul was supposed to possess, Tavernier (Voyages, part ii.
So while Europe was torn with religious wars, and the duke of Alva was burning Dutchmen by the thousand, Akbar the Great Mogul was revealing a kind of greatness that had been rare since the days of Asoka.
The travellers felt a strong desire to collect some of them: the smallest would have made the biggest ornament in the throne of the Great Mogul.