About The Word Conquest
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Conquest
Conquest Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Conquest?
[n] success in mastering something difficult; "the conquest of space"
[n] the act of conquering [n] an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone Synonyms | Synonyms for Conquest: conquering | seduction | subjection | subjugation Related Terms | Find terms related to Conquest: adoption | appropriation | arrogation | ascendancy | assumption | beating | Cadmean victory | captive | catch | championship | collapse | colonization | conquering | coquette | crash | date | deathblow | debacle | defeat | defeating | destruction | domination | downfall | drubbing | easy victory | enslavement | failure | fall | flirt | grand slam | hiding | honey | indent | knockout | KO | lambasting | landslide | landslide victory | lathering | licking | mastery | moral victory | occupation | overcoming | overthrow | overturn | picnic | preemption | preoccupation | prepossession | pushover | Pyrrhic victory | quietus | requisition | rout | routing | ruin | runaway victory | smash | steady | subdual | subduing | subjection | subjugation | success | sweet patootie | sweetheart | sweetie | takeover | taking over | thrashing | total victory | trimming | triumph | trouncing | undoing | usurpation | vamp | vampire | vanquishment | victory | walkaway | walkover | Waterloo | whipping | win | winning | winning streak See Also | capture | gaining control | Norman Conquest | score | seizure | sexual conquest | success Conquest In Webster's Dictionary \Con"quest\, n. [OF. conquest, conqueste, F.
conqu[^e]te, LL. conquistum, conquista, prop. p. p. from L.
conquirere. See {Conquer}.]
1. The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force;
the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force,
whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation;
victory.
In joys of conquest he resigns his breath.
--Addison.
Three years sufficed for the conquest of the
country. --Prescott.
2. That which is conquered; possession gained by force,
physical or moral.
Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
--Shak.
3. (Feudal Law) The acquiring of property by other means than
by inheritance; acquisition. --Blackstone.
4. The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle;
as, the conquest of liberty or peace.
{The Conquest} (Eng. Hist.), the subjugation of England by
William of Normandy in 1066.
Syn: Victory; triumph; mastery; reduction; subjugation;
subjection.
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