Definitions for Conquest

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Conquest con·quest

Spelling: [kon-kwest, kong-]

IPA: /ˈkɒn kwɛst, ˈkɒŋ-/

Conquest is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 19 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 22 points.

You can make 244 anagrams from letters in Conquest (cenoqstu).

Definitions for Conquest

noun

1. the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
2. the winning of favor, affection, love, etc.:
3. a person whose favor, affection, etc., has been won:
4. anything acquired by conquering, as a nation, a territory, or spoils.
5. the Conquest, Norman Conquest.

Origin of Conquest

1275-1325; Middle English conqueste Anglo-French, Old French Vulgar Latin *conquēsta (for Latin conquīsīta, feminine past participle of conquīrere). See con-,

Examples for Conquest

When he opened the box, the first book which he picked up was The conquest of Fear.

This conquest has brought instability to unexpected parts of the region.

After all, the conquest of fear is largely a question of vitality.

Every body saw, he was pleased to say, that I had made a conquest.

Rappers express their libidinous desires in the boring, one-note language of conquest.

It was he who had planned the conquest of Corsica, and annexed it to France.

To the conquest of fear this splendid universalism is another essential.

The conquest—and the reaction to it—have given him an aura of invincibility that holy-warrior wannabes find quite thrilling.

Experts hypothesize the painting represents the “conquest dance,” a Christian conversion ritual still performed to this day.

Before the 16thcentury, Spanish conquest, the Aztecs saw the skull as a symbol of rebirth.