conquest

See also: Conquest

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɒŋkwɛst/, /ˈkɒŋkwəst/
• IPA^(key): /ˈkɑnkwɛst/, /ˈkɑnkwəst/, /ˈkɑŋ-/

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Noun

conquest (countable and uncountable, plural conquests)

1. Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
2. (figuratively, by extenstion) An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle.
   • Prescott

     Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country.

   • 2002, Merle Goldman, Leo Ou-fan Lee, An intellectual history of modern China, →ISBN, 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. That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
   • Shakespeare

     Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?

4. (feudal law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

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5. (colloquial, figurative) A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex.
6. (video games) 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.

Derived terms

• Norman Conquest

Translations

victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy

• Armenian: նվաճում (hy) (nvačum)
• Bulgarian: завоевание (bg) n (zavoevanie)
• Catalan: conquesta (ca) f, conquista (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 戰勝／战胜 (zh) (zhànshèng), 战胜 (zh) (zhànshèng), 征服 (zh) (zhēngfú)

• Czech: dobytí n
• Dutch: verovering (nl) f
• Esperanto: konkero
• French: conquête (fr) f
• Galician: conquista f
• German: Eroberung (de) f
• Hebrew: כיבוש m (kibúsh)
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• Italian: conquista (it) f, soggiogamento (it) m
• Maori: raupatu
• Norman: contchête f
• Polish: podbój (pl) m
• Portuguese: conquista (pt) f
• Russian: завоева́ние (ru) (zavojevánije)
• Scottish Gaelic: ceannsachadh m
• Serbo-Croatian: osvajanje (sh)
• Spanish: conquista (es) f
• Swedish: erövring (sv)
• Welsh: concwest f, concwestau f pl

competitive mode in first-person shooter games

• Finnish: lipunvaltaus
• German: Conquest-Modus m, Conquestmodus m, Conquest
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• Polish: tryb (pl) podboju m, podbój (pl) m

Verb

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

1. (archaic) To conquer.
2. (marketing) 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.

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Middle English

Alternative forms

• conqueste, quenqueste, conqwest, conqweste

Etymology

From Old French conqueste.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔnˈkwɛst(ə)/

Noun

conquest (plural conquestes)

1. A conquest or invasion; a forcible takeover.
2. The act of attaining victory or winning.
3. The spoils of war; the fruit of victory.
4. William the Conqueror's invasion of England.
5. (rare) discord, battle, division

Descendants

• English: conquest

References

• “conquest(e (n.)”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-04-28.