GNU Collaborative International Dictionary of English

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   Mogul , n. [From the Mongolian.]
   A person of the Mongolian race.
   1913 Webster
   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.
   PJC
   (Railroad) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck.
   1913 Webster
   A great personage; magnate; autocrat; as, an industrial mogul.
   Webster 1913 Suppl.
   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.
   
   1913 Webster
   
         
       

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   Moghul, Mogul , prop. a. [See Mogul, n..] Of or pertaining to the Moguls{2}; 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.
   PJC