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MOGUL
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very wealthy or powerful businessman
Example:
an oil baron
Synonyms:
baron; big businessman; business leader; king; magnate; mogul; power; top executive; tycoon
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("mogul" is a kind of...):
businessman; man of affairs (a person engaged in commercial or industrial business (especially an owner or executive))
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mogul"):
oil tycoon (a powerful person in the oil business)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857
Synonyms:
Moghul; Mogul
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("Mogul" is a kind of...):
ruler; swayer (a person who rules or commands)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A bump on a ski slope
Classified under:
Nouns denoting two and three dimensional shapes
Hypernyms ("mogul" is a kind of...):
bulge; bump; excrescence; extrusion; gibbosity; gibbousness; hump; jut; prominence; protrusion; protuberance; swelling (something that bulges out or is protuberant or projects from its surroundings)
