conquest
IPA: kˈɑŋkwɛst
noun
- An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
- (by extension, often figuratively) An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.
- That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.
- (obsolete, feudal law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
- (colloquial, figurative) A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.
- (video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.
- The personification of conquest, often depicted riding a white horse.
- An English surname from Old French, from Old French conqueste (“conquest”), probably originally a nickname.
- A town in New York.
- A village in Saskatchewan.
verb
- (archaic) To conquer.
- (marketing) To compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products adjacent to editorial content relating to the competitor or by using terms and keywords for one's own products that are currently associated with the competitor.
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Examples of "conquest" in Sentences
- The conquest represented the end of the dynasty.
- The conquest was the outcome of a great victory.
- The article makes no mention of the conquest of the South.
- The cause of disability in the Ottoman conquest of Europe.
- The final battle of the Conquest was the battle of Corrin.
- The first is the group of chroniclers detailing the conquest.
- Doing it in the name of conquest does not palliate the crime.
- It deals with the theological and human conquest of the world.
- The dance commemorates the conquest of the Aztec by the Spanish.
- Landscapes of Cultivation in Mesoamerica on the Eve of the Conquest.