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UK
/kˈɒnkwɛst/
]
[ US /ˈkɑŋkwɛst/ ]
[ US /ˈkɑŋkwɛst/ ]
NOUN
- an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone
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success in mastering something difficult
the conquest of space - the act of conquering
How To Use conquest In A Sentence
- King Darius I is noteworthy for his administrative reforms, military conquests, and religious toleration.
- Shakespearean tales of love as sacrifice, conquest or unrequited passion are beyond reason.
- It contests every inch of space with man, and, aided by incessant heat and moisture, constantly wrests from him his conquests and buries them in a fury of viridescence. In Seven Stages: A Flying Trip Around the World
- Their family can trace its origins back to the Norman Conquest.
- In the New World, Spain coupled religious orthodoxy with political conquest. Marilyn Mellowes: 'God in America:' A Question of Religious Liberty (VIDEO)
- Russian conquests in Asia were certainly no less brutal than those of any other expanding imperial power.
- Omi, "grandee", title, applied to chiefs of conquest, and to subjects holding court office; higher than muraji; inferior title in Temmu's peerage A History of the Japanese People From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era
- After the Spanish conquest, a system known as the encomienda was established in Mexico, with the objective of repartitioning the indigenous land and its inhabitants. A yearly culinary ritual: La matanza
- In the colonial context, translation acted as a mediating agency between conquest and conversion.
- [5] Meanwhile Eurylochus and his companions, finding that this force had entered and that it was impossible to storm the city, withdrew, not to the Peloponnesus, but to the country once called Aeolis and now Calydon and Pleuron, and to the places in that neighborhood and Proschium in Aetolia; [6] because the Ambraciots had come and urged them to combine with them in attacking Amphilochian Argos and the rest of Amphilochia and Acarnania; affirming that the conquest of these countries would bring all the continent into alliance with Sparta. THE LANDMARK THUCYDIDES