Moguls

1. A Muslim dynasty, originally Turkish but strongly influenced by Persia, that ruled India in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The Taj Mahal is an example of Mogul influence in India.

Notes

The name “mogul” is sometimes applied to a great personage or magnate. For example, the founders of the major Hollywood studios often have been called “moguls.”

Example Sentences

Establishment Republicans, corporate CEOs and Wall Street moguls stand appalled at the Tea Party monster they helped to create.

From The Daily Beast

Rumors are circulating that Campbell has impressed TV moguls so much, that she may be getting her own talk show.

From The Daily Beast

Dolce and Gabbana join a host of other Italian fashion moguls who have had tax troubles.

From The Daily Beast

The designers join a long tradition of fashion moguls accused of tax evasion, but in a new Italy.

From The Daily Beast

Would-be media moguls and partisan players rush to take the calls of big-dollar donors, just as senators and congressmen do.

From The Daily Beast

In the center of the river line stood the imposing red sandstone palace of Bahadur Shah, last of the Moguls.

From Project Gutenberg

The sun was held an especial object of adoration, as it "has been the peculiar god of the Moguls, from the earliest times."

From Project Gutenberg

His family was high moguls in England—or, maybe, it was Ireland.

From Project Gutenberg

Such was the influence in Europe of the invasion of the Moguls.

From Project Gutenberg

The last of the line of the Great Moguls of India had to go begging for a prison.

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