conquests

Noun

conquest (countable and uncountable, plural conquests)

1. An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
   • Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persians
2. (broadly, figuratively, often) An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.
   • Mankind's conquest of space
3. 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]...
4. (obsolete, feudal law) 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
5. (colloquial, figuratively) 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
6. 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.

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