Conquest

Pronunciation

• UK IPA: kÉ’Å‹kwÉ›st
• US IPA: kÉ‘Å‹kwÉ›st

Origin

Old French conqueste (Modern French conquête).

Full definition of conquest

Noun

1. Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
2. (figuratively, by extenstion) An act or instance of overcoming an obstacle.
• PrescottThree years sufficed for the conquest of the country.
• 2002, Merle Goldman, Leo Ou-fan Lee, An intellectual history of modern China, 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.
• ShakespeareWherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
4. (feudal law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
5. (colloquial, figurative) A person with whom one has had sex.

Verb

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