'Grand Mogul' definitions:

Definition of 'Grand Mogul'

From: GCIDE
  • Mogul \Mo*gul"\, n. [From the Mongolian.]
  • 1. A person of the Mongolian race. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. 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]
  • 3. (Railroad) A heavy locomotive for freight traffic, having three pairs of connected driving wheels and a two-wheeled truck. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. 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] Moghul