Conquest - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|ˈkɑːŋkwest|
Brit.
|ˈkɒŋkwest|
noun
- the act of conquering (syn: conquering, subjection, subjugation)
- success in mastering something difficult
- success in mastering something difficult
the conquest of space
- an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone (syn: seduction)Extra examples
She was one of his many conquests.
French conquests in Asia
He boasts about his many conquests.
...with their conquest of the Moors complete, Ferdinand and Isabella next exiled the Jews from Spain...
...vanquished nation after nation in his relentless conquest of Europe...
...the barbarous treatment of the native peoples of the New World by those bent on conquest at any cost...
Armies were flushed with the conquest.
The city whose conquest had cost him so dear.
Claudius was the first to invade Britain with distinct...intentions of conquest
Word forms
noun
singular: conquest
plural: conquests
singular: conquest
plural: conquests
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