conquest

plural conquests

1. countableuncountableAn act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.

   Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persians

2. broadlycountablefigurativelyoftenuncountableAn act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.

   Mankind's conquest of space

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   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

   The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.

   1899 February, Joseph Conrad, “The Heart of Darkness”, in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, volume CLXV, number M, New York, N.Y.: The Leonard Scott Publishing Company, […], →OCLC, part I, page 194

   Therefore, this dream of the human conquest of selfishness appeared devoid of any strong sense of the necessity of internal struggle to overcome it

   2002, Merle Goldman, Leo Ou-fan Lee, An intellectual history of modern China, →ISBN, page 21

3. countableuncountableThat 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] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]

4. countableobsoleteuncountablefeudal lawThe acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

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

   1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, →OCLC

5. colloquialcountablefigurativelyuncountableA 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. countableuncountablevideo gamesA competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

present singular third person conquests · participle present conquesting · participle past conquested · past conquested

1. businessTo 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.

present singular third person conquests · participle present conquesting · participle past conquested · past conquested

1. archaicTo conquer.

1. The personification of conquest, often depicted riding a white horse.

   Synonyms: Pestilence, white rider

2. An English surname from Old French, from Old French conqueste (“conquest”), probably originally a nickname.
3. A town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.
4. A village in the Rural Municipality of Fertile Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada.