moguls
Mounds for skiers
Moguls has two unrelated meanings.
A mogul is a powerful person, especially in business or entertainment: a media mogul, Hollywood moguls.
Separately, moguls are bumps on a ski slope formed by repeated turns carving out the snow, or the sport of skiing down such terrain: She competed in freestyle moguls at the Olympics.
People with vast fortunes
- millionairesPeople worth seven figures
- magnatesWealthy, powerful industrialists
- baronsTitled nobles, lowest rank
- oligarchsWealthy few who govern
industrialists · titans · plutocrats · tycoons · CEOs · founders · executives · chairpersons
Small raised areas
- freestyleWithout prescribed technique
- downhillToward the bottom
- slalomSki race through gates
- jumpsPushes off ground
powder · groomed · carving · edging · absorption · rhythm · technique · balance
Informal power or punch
- swayRock back and forth
- leverageBorrowed capital for amplified returns
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
- authorityPower to enforce obedience
prestige · power · connections · networking · lobbying · endorsement · manipulation · persuasion
Wealth or destiny
- affluenceAbundance of money
- capitalWealth used for investment
- assetsOwned items of value
- investmentsAssets bought for profit
estates · luxury · yachts · mansions · inheritance · philanthropy · endowments · trusts
billionaires
People with vast fortunes
- millionairesPeople worth seven figures
- magnatesWealthy, powerful industrialists
- baronsTitled nobles, lowest rank
oligarchs · industrialists · titans · plutocrats · tycoons · CEOs · founders · executives · chairpersons · directors
bumps
Small raised areas
jumps · powder · groomed · carving · edging · absorption · rhythm · technique · balance · runs
clout
Informal power or punch
- swayRock back and forth
- leverageBorrowed capital for amplified returns
- dominanceSuperior influence over others
authority · prestige · power · connections · networking · lobbying · endorsement · manipulation · persuasion · negotiation
fortune
Wealth or destiny
investments · estates · luxury · yachts · mansions · inheritance · philanthropy · endowments · trusts · dividends
- high societygossip, socialites, socialite, aristocrats, aristocrat
- show businessactors, actresses, directors, producers, entertainers
- skiingskiing, ski, ski resort, ski slope, ski slopes
- Winter Olympicsalpine skiing, biathlon, bobsled, ski jumping, cross-country skiing
- winter sportsskiing, skating, snowboarding, hockey, sledding
- eliteselites, plutocrats, oligarchs, aristocrats, blue bloods
mogulscorduroy
Ridged cotton textile
flat terrain · packed powder · beginner slopes · green runs · powder
mogulspeons
Menial laborers with little status
nobodies · underlings · minions · small fry · rank and file
mogulsnobodies
Unimportant, unknown persons
paupers · unknowns · common folk · ordinary people · have-nots
- tech mogulWealthy technology industry leader
- media mogulCommunications industry titan
- business mogulsPowerful commercial leaders
- real estate mogulPowerful figure in land dealing
- fashion mogulPowerful figure in apparel
- entertainment mogulPowerful media industry leader