Great Mogul
Americannoun
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the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
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(lowercase) an important or distinguished person.
noun
Example Sentences
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The Fort was brilliantly illuminated, and the Palace was thronged with "fair women and brave men," but they were those of another race, and speaking another language, from any known to the Great Mogul.
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India has three capitals—Delhi, where once reigned the Great Mogul, and which is still the centre of the Mohammedan faith; Benares, the Mecca of the Hindoos; and Calcutta, the capital of the modern British Empire.
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What immeasurable good may be wrought by a Governor-General like Lord William Bentinck, of whom it was said that "he was William Penn on the throne of the Great Mogul."
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Ever since I was a child, I had read about the Great Mogul, until there was a magic in the very word.
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In all these things the life of the Great Mogul did not differ from that of the Moorish Kings of Spain.
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