What does mogul mean?

Definitions for mogul
ˈmoʊ gəl, -gʌl, moʊˈgʌlmogul

This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word mogul.

Princeton's WordNet

  1. mogulnoun

    a bump on a ski slope

  2. Mogul, Moghulnoun

    a member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857

  3. baron, big businessman, business leader, king, magnate, mogul, power, top executive, tycoonnoun

    a very wealthy or powerful businessman

    "an oil baron"

GCIDE

  1. Mogulnoun

    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.

  2. Moguladjective

    Of or pertaining to the Moguls; as, The Taj Mahal, the most beautiful piece of Mogul architecture, was built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a mausoleum for his favorite wife.

ChatGPT

  1. mogul

    A mogul is a powerful and influential person, particularly in a specific industry or field, such as business or media. The term typically refers to someone who has achieved significant success, status, or wealth as a result of their endeavors. Additionally, in a skiing context, a mogul refers to a mound or bump on a ski slope.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Mogulnoun

    a person of the Mongolian race

  2. Mogulnoun

    a heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck

  3. Etymology: [See Mogul, n..]

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Mogul

    mō-gul′, n. a Mongol or Mongolian, esp. one of the followers of Baber, the conqueror of India (1483-1530): a name applied to the best quality of playing-cards.—adj. pertaining to the Mogul Empire, architecture, &c.—adj., the title by which Europeans knew the Emperors of Delhi. [Pers., properly 'a Mongol.']

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. MOGUL

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Mogul is ranked #68547 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Mogul surname appeared 287 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Mogul.

    81.8% or 235 total occurrences were White.
    13.9% or 40 total occurrences were Asian.
    2% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of mogul in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of mogul in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of mogul in a Sentence

  1. Bennett Gershman:

    I think he's going to try to show that these women were trying to ingratiate themselves with this powerful Hollywood mogul, that they were not victims, that they were willing participants in various sexual encounters.

  2. Brian Rogers:

    Somebody is going to become a mogul.

  3. Piu Eatwell:

    Mark Hansen was a kind of a shady Hollywood mogul type, he owned a number of movie theaters in Hollywood and he was a multimillionaire. He also had a number of rooming houses and his own apartment just off Hollywood Boulevard… He was separated from his wife, who had a house on the Hollywood Hills with their two daughters. He had a great lifestyle in his apartment… where he would invite girls if he liked their looks… he would invite them to stay with obviously a promise that they were going to make it big as movie stars. Sooner or later, they would probably be booted out or end up as dancers in one of his nightclubs.

  4. Richard Gere:

    Actually, it was my agent who was pushing for it much more than I was, i was a little resistant because I was n’t that taken with the stage production. But my agent just really kept pushing. I had just done a very intense movie, Unfaithful, and I thought : ‘ At the very least I ’m going to have fun doing this.' OH, BABY, Harvey Weinstein was still the co-chairman of Miramax Films when Chicago was being made. And the now disgraced movie mogul was adamant at the time that Britney Spears should be given a role in the movie. According to The New York Times, Harvey Weinstein sent three Miramax execs to pitch the idea to Britney Spears backstage at a concert in Canada. But director Rob Marshall and other producers were.

  5. Knobel Gupta:

    We've spent a long time studying India's architectural history, mogul architecture, Wada architecture and of course the famed ancient stepwells. But we then take these historic designs and re-imagine them, and so you may not even recognize it at first because it's done in a completely new form.

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