conquest
UK/ˈkɒŋkwɛst//ˈkɑnkwɛst/
conquest noun: an act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
Noun
conquest (countable and uncountable, plural conquests)
- An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
- Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persians
- An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.
- Mankind's conquest of space
- Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country.1843, William H[ickling] Prescott, History of the Conquest of Mexico, […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Harper and Brothers, […], →OCLC
- That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.
- Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Iulius Cæsar”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
- The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
- What we call purchase, perquisitio, the feudists called conquest, conqucestus, or conquisitio1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC
- A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.
- And, crowning glory of the evening! a conquest was made, a conquest so sudden, so brilliant, and so obvious, that it was enough to give any fête at which it occurred the immortality of a season.1837, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], “Chapter XVIII. The Fête.”, in Ethel Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 134
- 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.
Verb (1)
conquest (third-person singular simple present conquests, present participle conquesting, simple past and past participle conquested)
- 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.
Verb (2)
conquest (third-person singular simple present conquests, present participle conquesting, simple past and past participle conquested)
- To conquer.
Proper noun capitalized: Conquest
Conquest
- The personification of conquest, often depicted riding a white horse.
- Synonyms:
- Pestilence, white rider
- An English surname from Old French, from Old French conqueste (“conquest”), probably originally a nickname.
- A town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.
- A village in the Rural Municipality of Fertile Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada.
conquest meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
conquest in Hindi
- act or instance of achieving victory through combat; subjugation of an enemy
- विजय vijay, फ़तह fatah, जयन jayan, पराजय parājay
conquest in Tamil
- வெற்றிப்பேறு
conquest in Urdu
- act or instance of achieving victory through combat; subjugation of an enemy
- فتح fatah
conquest in Bengali
- act or instance of achieving victory through combat; subjugation of an enemy
- বিজয় bijoẏ
More languagesFewer languages
- conquest in Telugu
- జయము jayamu
- conquest in Malayalam
- പിടിച്ചടക്കൽ, ദിഗ്വിജയം, കീഴടക്കിയ പ്രദേശം
- conquest in Kannada
- ವಿಜಯ, ಗೆಲುವು, ವಶಪಡಿಸಿಕೊಳ್ಳುವುದು, ಗೆದ್ದರಾಜ್ಯ
- conquest in Punjabi
- فتح fat-hi, ਫ਼ਤਿਹ fatih
- conquest in Sanskrit
- जय jayá, संजय saṃjaya, पराजय parājaya, विजित víjita
- conquest in Pashto
- فتح fathá, استيلا estilã
- conquest in Arabic
- فَتْح fatḥ, اِسْتِيلَاء istīlāʔ, تَسْخِير tasḵīr, إِخْضَاع ʔiḵḍāʕ
- conquest in Persian
- استیلا estilâ, فتح fath, تسخیر tasxir
- conquest in Vietnamese
- sự chinh phục
Examples of conquest in a sentence
- The borders of the empire were expanded militarily over the course of many wars of conquest.
- What was I, just another lay you can toss aside as you go on to your next conquest?
- The generals relied on costly human waves to make tiny conquests that they could sell to politicians and the population.
Synonyms of conquest
Forms of conquest
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | conquests |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | conquests |
| present participle | conquesting |
| past participle | conquested |
| past | conquested |
Origin of conquest
Inherited from Middle English conquest, borrowed from Old French conqueste.
Inherited from Middle English conquesten, borrowed from Middle French conquester, from Old French conquester.
Words formed from conquest
Phrases with conquest
Questions about conquest
- What does conquest mean?
- Conquest means an act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
- What is conquest in Hindi?
- Conquest in Hindi is विजय (vijay), फ़तह (fatah), जयन (jayan). See Conquest meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is conquest?
- Conquest can be a noun, a verb or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce conquest?
- Conquest is pronounced /ˈkɒŋkwɛst/ (UK).
- What is the plural of conquest?
- The plural of conquest is conquests.
Words near conquest in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: conquest (page history and authors); Conquest (page history and authors); conquest (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); జయము (Telugu) (page history and authors); conquest (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); conquest (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); فتح (Punjabi) (page history and authors); जय (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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