conquest
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[edit] Etymology
Old French conqueste (Modern French conquête).
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
conquest (plural conquests)
- Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
- (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
- 2002, Merle Goldman, Leo Ou-fan Lee, An intellectual history of modern China, ISBN 0521797101, page 21:
- (colloquial, figruratively) A person with whom one has had sex.
[edit] Translations
victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy
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