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moghul
(encz) | Moghul, |
Moghul
(gcide) | Moghul \Mo*ghul"\, n.
an alternate from of mogul.
[PJC] |
Moghul
(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 |
Moghul
(gcide) | Moghul \Mo*ghul"\, Mogul \Mo*gul"\, prop. a. [See Mogul, n..]
Of or pertaining to the Moguls[2]; as, The Taj Mahal, the
most beautiful piece of Mogul architecture, was built by the
Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a mausoleum for his favorite
wife.
[PJC] Moghul empire |
moghul
(wn) | Moghul
n 1: a member of the Muslim dynasty that ruled India until 1857
[syn: Mogul, Moghul] |
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Moghul
(gcide) | Moghul \Mo*ghul"\, n.
an alternate from of mogul.
[PJC]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] MoghulMoghul \Mo*ghul"\, Mogul \Mo*gul"\, prop. a. [See Mogul, n..]
Of or pertaining to the Moguls[2]; as, The Taj Mahal, the
most beautiful piece of Mogul architecture, was built by the
Mogul emperor Shah Jehan as a mausoleum for his favorite
wife.
[PJC] Moghul empire |
Moghul empire
(gcide) | Moghul empire \Mo*ghul" empire\, Mogul empire \Mo*gul" empire\,
prop. a. [See Mogul, n..]
The empire created in India by invading Mongolians (Tatars),
established under Baber, who conquered Hindustan in 1526. The
establsihed religion of the empire was Mohammedanism. After
the death of the Great Mogul Aurung-Zeb in 1707, power passed
to the Mahrattas and the British. The empire existed only
nominally in the early 1800's, and was finally abolished in
1857 by the deposing of the last emperor.
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