mogul:
(also, spelling: Mughal; plural: ‘moguls‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘gu’ rhyme with the letters ‘gu’ in “gun”)
(always with a capital ‘M’) was a member of Muslim dynasty, founded by Baber, that conquered and ruled India between 1526 and 1857;
and (less commonly) a Mongolian, a person belonging to Mongolia;
a person of very great power, wealth, influence and/or importance;
a magnate,
e.g.
Before becoming a real estate mogul, John was just a local real estate broker, trying out his luck at whatever deal came in his way.
The print media moguls print news the way they like it to be.
The British Petroleum, one of the oil moguls, is compelled to spend millions of dollars in cleaning up the oil spill mess they are responsible for.
For an article about the Moguls in India, please click here, for an item of news that shows us how we suddenly come across this word referring to a wealthy person or a business magnate in our news, please click here and for an article, with a video clip, about self-made female business moguls in which we see the word ‘tycoons’ is also used to refer to the wealthy, please click here.


