conquest

English

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Etymology

Old French conqueste (Modern French conquête).

Pronunciation

Noun

conquest (plural conquests)

  1. Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
  2. (figuratively, by extenstion) An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle.
    • 2002, Merle Goldman, Leo Ou-fan Lee, An intellectual history of modern China, ISBN 0521797101, page 21:
      Therefore, this dream of the human conquest of selfishness appeared devoid of any strong sense of the necessity of internal struggle to overcome it
  3. (colloquial, figruratively) A person with whom one has had sex.

Translations

victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy

Verb

conquest (third-person singular simple present conquests, present participle conquesting, simple past and past participle conquested)

  1. (archaic) To conquer.
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