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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
mogul
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
movie
▪ The movie moguls were taking it up.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ah, the life of the hip-hop mogul.
▪ But many of the A&R moguls interviewed here would be quick to disagree.
▪ Lloyd Kaufman is also a writer, director, producer, actor and studio mogul, all rolled into one.
▪ Though movie stars and corporate moguls have run up prices in beach-front resorts recently, expect prices overall to stabilize.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
mogul

Mogul \Mo*gul"\, n. [From the Mongolian.]

  1. A person of the Mongolian race.

  2. 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.

  3. (Railroad) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.

  4. 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.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mogul

"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.

mogul

"elevation on a ski slope," 1961, probably [Barnhart] from Scandinavian (compare dialectal Norwegian mugje, fem. muga, "a heap, a mound"), or [OED] from southern German dialect mugel in the same sense.

Wiktionary
mogul

Etymology 1 n. a rich or powerful person; a magnate Etymology 2

n. a hump or bump on a skiing piste

WordNet
mogul
  1. n. a bump on a ski slope

  2. a member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857 [syn: Moghul]

  3. a very wealthy or powerful businessman; "an oil baron" [syn: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, power, top executive, tycoon]

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Mogul (website)

Mogul is a technology platform that enables women worldwide to connect, share information, and access knowledge from each other. It was founded in 2014 by Tiffany Pham.

Known as a “Global Media Empire for Women,” Mogul encourages its audience to share ideas, solicit advice, and interact with other community members on the platform. Users can view trending content including stories, products, and jobs which are personalized to their interests, location, or career. Users can then upvote, downvote, comment on, and share the published content.

In 2016, Mogul launched the #IAmAMogul campaign partnering with notable influencers including Chelsea Clinton, Mayor of Paris Anne Hidalgo, Kelly Osbourne, Laura Prepon, Lindsey Stirling, Lizzie Velásquez, Christina Bennett Lind, Fran Hauser, Phillipa Soo, and Paige Howard. The campaign was launched to "inspire all women to realize that they too can be moguls, and that they have the power to shape the world through their voices and actions."

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.