Great Mogul

noun

1. the emperor of the former Mogul Empire in India founded in 1526 by Baber.
2. (lowercase) an important or distinguished person.

Great Mogul

noun

1. any of the Muslim emperors of India (1526–1857)

Example Sentences

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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Perhaps one gets a yet stronger impression of the magnificence of the Great Mogul in a visit to the Summer Palace of Akbar at Futtehpore-Sikri, so called from two villages embraced in the royal retreat.

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