conquest
Americannoun
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the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
- Synonyms:
- mastery, defeat, subjugation
- Antonyms:
- surrender
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the winning of favor, affection, love, etc..
the conquest of Antony by Cleopatra.
- Synonyms:
- enchantment, seduction
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a person whose favor, affection, etc., has been won.
He's another one of her conquests.
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anything acquired by conquering, as a nation, a territory, or spoils.
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the Conquest. Norman Conquest.
noun
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the act or an instance of conquering or the state of having been conquered; victory
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a person, thing, etc, that has been conquered or won
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the act or art of gaining a person's compliance, love, etc, by seduction or force of personality
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a person, whose compliance, love, etc, has been won over by seduction or force of personality
noun
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See Norman Conquest
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the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763
Related Words
See victory.
Other Word Forms
- postconquest adjective
- reconquest noun
- self-conquest noun
Etymology
Origin of conquest
First recorded in 1275–1325; Middle English conqueste, from Anglo-French, Old French, from unattested Vulgar Latin conquēsta (for Latin conquīsīta, feminine past participle of conquīrere ). See con-, quest
Example Sentences
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The horse also proved indispensable in the Spanish conquest of Mexico in 1521.
From Los Angeles Times
He’s aware that online critics could dispute his conquests, so sometimes he insists on visiting multiple points.
It was a fever dream of geopolitical conquest.
From Salon
Her Hellenic identity is unsurprising, as there was an influx of Greeks after Alexander the Great’s conquest of Egypt in 332 B.C.
Alexander Gabuev, the director of the Carnegie Russia Eurasia Center in Berlin who played Putin in the exercise, pointed out that the smokescreen of “humanitarian” intervention was crucial to enable Russian conquest.
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