Conquest

//ˈkɒŋkwɛst// name, noun, verb, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    The personification of conquest, often depicted riding a white horse.
  2. 2
    An English surname from Old French, from Old French conqueste (“conquest”), probably originally a nickname.
  3. 3
    A town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.
  4. 4
    A village in the Rural Municipality of Fertile Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada.
Noun
  1. 1
    An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy. countable, uncountable

    "Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persians"

  2. 2
    success in mastering something difficult wordnet
  3. 3
    An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles. broadly, countable, figuratively, often, uncountable

    "Mankind's conquest of space"

  4. 4
    the act of conquering wordnet
  5. 5
    That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle. countable, uncountable

    "Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?"

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  1. 6
    an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone wordnet
  2. 7
    The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition. countable, obsolete, uncountable

    "What we call purchase, perquisitio, the feudists called conquest, conqucestus, or conquisitio"

  3. 8
    A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections. colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable

    "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."

  4. 9
    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. countable, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    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.
  2. 2
    To conquer. archaic

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English conquest, from Old French conqueste (French conquête).

Etymology 2

From Middle English conquest, from Old French conqueste (French conquête).

Etymology 3

From Middle English conquesten, from Middle French conquester, from Old French conquester, from Medieval Latin conquestō.

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