Other forms: moguls
A mogul is a very powerful figure in an industry. A media mogul, a property mogul, the studio moguls.
It is journalist's language and always comes with an industry attached. The word is the Mughal Empire's name, borrowed for the idea of enormous wealth and power. A mogul is also a bump on a ski slope, which is an entirely unrelated word.
1nounmogulA very powerful figure in an industry.
“The media mogul owns newspapers and TV channels in several countries.”
mogul is a person.
From Mughal, the empire of northern India, whose name came through Persian from Mongol.
Figurative use of Moghul, which originally meant Mongol, or person of Mongolian descent. In this context, it refers to the Mughal Empire (Mughal being Persian or Arabic for "Mongol") of the Indian subcontinent that existed between 1526 and 1857: the early Mughal emperors claimed a heritage dating back to the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan. The modern meaning of the word is supposedly derived from the storied riches of the Mughal emperors, which, for example, produced the Taj Mahal.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA