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Mogul   /mˈoʊgəl/   Listen
Mogul

noun
1.
A bump on a ski slope.
2.
A member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857.  Synonym: Moghul.
3.
A very wealthy or powerful businessman.  Synonyms: baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, power, top executive, tycoon.



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"Mogul" Quotes from Famous Books



... is only possessed completely by the dead, and that it is some knowledge of this that makes us gaze with so much emotion upon the face of the Sphinx or Buddha. Who can forget the face of Chaliapine as the Mogul King in Prince Igor, when a mask covering its upper portion made him seem like a Phoenix at the end of its thousand wise years, awaiting in condescension the burning nest and what did it not gain from that immobility in ...
— Certain Noble Plays of Japan • Ezra Pound

... in auld lang syne, And when none else your charms might ogle, I'll not deny, Fair nymph, that I Was happier than a Persian mogul. ...
— A Little Book of Western Verse • Eugene Field

... accomplish? No wonder that nothing was talked of for a hundred miles around but the magic building—of which, by the way, I do not venture to give you a description, because it would carry me too far away. Let it suffice to say, that never Emperor of China, Caliph of Bagdad, or Great Mogul had such a habitation as our banker, and for a very good reason—he was twenty times as rich as any such gentry as I have named ...
— The History of a Mouthful of Bread - And its effect on the organization of men and animals • Jean Mace

... management of the prince, a fuller establishment was necessary; and that which existed under the petty chiefs, entirely resembled what is described by the late Mr Grant, Sereshtahdar of Bengal, as the proper Mogul system. The actual cultivators, or farmers as they would be termed in England, only they all occupied very small farms, were called Zemindars, and were very moderately assessed. In Almora, (and the other estates did not materially differ,) the rent was fixed by the Visi, which, ...
— An Account of The Kingdom of Nepal • Fancis Buchanan Hamilton

... he said, almost rudely, 'the devil is to pay down in the yard.' and ran on. 'Shut your door, master cook,' she heard him cry as he ran. 'The Great Mogul is out.' ...
— St. George and St. Michael • George MacDonald


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