CONQUEST • DICTIONARY ONE.COM • Definition of Conquest

Add this Dictionary
to your website!
See more options...

/kˈɑŋkwɛst/ Listen

noun

Conquest n.

The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory. "In joys of conquest he resigns his breath." "Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country."

That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral. "Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?"

(Feudal Law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.

The Conquest (Eng. Hist.), the subjugation of England by William of Normandy in 1066. The Norman Conquest.

Synonyms: Victory; triumph; mastery; reduction; subjugation; subjection.

See images of 'Conquest'

Etymology of 'Conquest'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

Share |

Add this dictionary
to your browser search bar

"Conquest" Quotes from Famous Books

... army was then divided into two parts; the one consisting of Spaniards and French, headed by the duke of Berwick, advanced towards Catalonia; the other body, consisting of French troops only, commanded by the duke of Orleans, proceeded to the conquest ...

— Fox's Book of Martyrs - Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant - Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs • John Fox

... completeness of the apparent failure. For that masterly campaign was followed by Napoleon's first abdication, that brilliant rally ended in Waterloo and the ruin of the French army. When we consider the spread of Grecian culture over the East by the parallel military triumph of Alexander, or the conquest of Gaul by the Roman armies under Caesar, we are met by political phenomena and a political success no more striking than the success of the Revolution. The Revolution did as much by the sword as ever did Alexander or Caesar, and as surely compelled ...

— Hilaire Belloc - The Man and His Work • C. Creighton Mandell

... bidding sat, and sat at ease; The statue 'gan a gracious conversation, And (waving to the foe a salutation) Sail'd with her wondering happy proteges Gayly adown the wide Borysthenes, Until they came unto some friendly nation. And when the heathen had at length grown shy of Their conquest, she one day came back ...

— Ballads • William Makepeace Thackeray

... later born, The old world was sure forlorn Wanting thee, that aidest more The god's victories than, before, All his panthers, and the brawls Of his piping Bacchanals. These, as stale, we disallow, Or judge of thee meant: only thou His true Indian conquest art; And, for ivy round his dart, The reformed god now weaves A finer ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... Thy vision new! Ave, Caesar! Conquest? Ends of Earth thy view? Ave, Caesar! To sow—to reap—to play God's game? How many Caesars did that same Until the great, grim Reaper came! Who ploughs with death shall garner rue, And under all skies is nothing new. ...

— King--of the Khyber Rifles • Talbot Mundy

More quotes...