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mogul

/ˈməʊɡəl/US/ˈmoʊɡəl/

mogul noun: a rich or powerful person; a magnate, nabob.

Noun (1)

mogul (plural moguls)

  1. A rich or powerful person; a magnate, nabob.
    • a Silicon Valley tech mogul
    • […] Crypto boosterism has a useful bipartisan appeal, garnering popularity among both antigovernment conservatives and socially liberal tech moguls.2022 January 25, David Yaffe-Bellany, “The Rise of the Crypto Mayors”, in The New York Times, →ISSN

Noun (2)

mogul (plural moguls)

  1. A hump or bump on a skiing piste.
    • On the same slope, choose a steeper traverse track on a short mogul field that passes over a series of small moguls, and repeat the avalement movements.1995, Martin Heckelman, The New Guide to Skiing, page 109
  2. A larger-sized (39 mm diameter) screw base used for large, high-power light bulbs, known as mogul (screw) base light bulbs.
  3. A machine that forms shaped candies from syrups or gels.

Verb

mogul (third-person singular simple present moguls, present participle (US) moguling or (UK) mogulling, simple past and past participle (US) moguled or (UK) mogulled)

  1. To ski over a course of humps or bumps.

Noun (3) capitalized: Mogul

Mogul (plural Moguls)

  1. (alternative) Alternative spelling of Moghul.
  2. A steam locomotive of the 2-6-0 wheel arrangement.
    • On that August Thursday afternoon, there was little freight traffic; a large "K3" Mogul went down with a short, fast goods, and a W.D. 2-8-0 proceeded northward light. […] We saw a few Gresley Moguls on goods, as a limited amount of freight traffic was sandwiched in even on this busy day.1951 January, R. A. H. Weight, “A Railway Recorder in Essex and Hertfordshire”, in Railway Magazine, pages 44, 46

Proper noun capitalized: Mogul

Mogul

  1. A census-designated place in Washoe County, Nevada, United States.

mogul meaning in Hindi, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali

mogul in Hindi

मोगुल

mogul in Marathi

मोगुल

mogul in Urdu

موگل

mogul in Bengali

মোগুল
More languagesFewer languages
mogul in Telugu
మొగుల్
mogul in Malayalam
മൊഗുൾ, മോഗുൾ, മോഗുലിലേക്ക്
mogul in Punjabi
ਮੋਗੁਲ
mogul in Gujarati
મોગુલ, મોગુલિંગ
mogul in Odia
ମୋଗୁଲ୍
mogul in Nepali
मोगुल, मोगुलिङ, मोगुलिंग

Examples of mogul in a sentence

  • It kills me to learn how many poor people are practically starving in this country while rich moguls spend such outrageous amounts on useless luxuries.
  • Towns like Houjie were commercial free-fire zones that moguls from postindustrial countries could only dream about.
  • Ice-T presents himself as a pop-cultural mogul, presiding over the growth of hip-hop as a multi-national and cross-platform empire.

All 14 example sentences with mogul

Synonyms of mogul

Forms of mogul

Noun
pluralmoguls
pluralMoguls
Verb
third-person singular presentmoguls
present participle USmoguling
present participle UKmogulling
past participle USmoguled
past USmoguled
past participle UKmogulled
past UKmogulled

Plural of mogul: moguls

Origin of mogul

Figurative use of Moghul, which originally meant Mongol, or person of Mongolian descent. In this context, it refers to the Mughal Empire (Mughal being Persian or Arabic for "Mongol") of the Indian subcontinent that existed between 1526 and 1857: the early Mughal emperors claimed a heritage dating back to the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. The modern meaning of the word is supposedly derived from the storied riches of the Mughal emperors, which, for example, produced the Taj Mahal.

From dialectal German Mugel or from dialectal Norwegian mugje (“heap, mound”).

Words formed from mogul

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Words that rhyme with mogul

Questions about mogul

What does mogul mean?
Mogul means a rich or powerful person; a magnate, nabob.
What is mogul in Hindi?
Mogul in Hindi is मोगुल. See Mogul meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is mogul?
Mogul can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
How do you pronounce mogul?
Mogul is pronounced /ˈməʊɡəl/ (UK).
What is the plural of mogul?
The plural of mogul is moguls.

Words near mogul in the dictionary

  1. Moguels
  2. moguey
  3. mogueys
  4. Moguing
  5. moguisteine
  6. mogul
  7. mogul skiing
  8. moguldom
  9. moguled
  10. Mogulian
  11. moguling

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: mogul (page history and authors); Mogul (page history and authors); mogul (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mogul (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mogul (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mogul (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mogul (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mogul (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mogul (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mogul (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mogul (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); mogul (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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