'Conquest' definitions:
Definition of 'conquest'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
Success in mastering something difficult; "the conquest of space"
noun
An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone [syn: seduction, conquest]
Definition of 'Conquest'
From: GCIDE
- Conquest \Con"quest\, n. [OF. conquest, conqueste, F. conqu[^e]te, LL. conquistum, conquista, prop. p. p. from L. conquirere. See Conquer.]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
- Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral. [1913 Webster]
- Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Feudal Law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- 4. The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace. [1913 Webster]
- The Conquest (Eng. Hist.), the subjugation of England by William of Normandy in 1066. The Norman Conquest.
- Syn: Victory; triumph; mastery; reduction; subjugation; subjection. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'conquest'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- adoption,
- appropriation,
- arrogation,
- ascendancy,
- assumption,
- beating,
- Cadmean victory,
- captive,
- catch,
- championship,
- collapse,
- colonization,
- conquering,
- coquette,
- crash,
- date,
- deathblow,
- debacle,
- defeat,
- defeating,
- destruction,
- domination,
- downfall,
- drubbing,
- easy victory,
- enslavement,
- failure,
- fall,
- flirt,
- grand slam,
- hiding,
- honey,
- indent,
- knockout,
- KO,
- lambasting,
- landslide,
- landslide victory,
- lathering,
- licking,
- mastery,
- moral victory,
- occupation,
- overcoming,
- overthrow,
- overturn,
- picnic,
- preemption,
- preoccupation,
- prepossession,
- pushover,
- Pyrrhic victory,
- quietus,
- requisition,
- rout,
- routing,
- ruin,
- runaway victory,
- smash,
- steady,
- subdual,
- subduing,
- subjection,
- subjugation,
- success,
- sweet patootie,
- sweetheart,
- sweetie,
- takeover,
- taking over,
- thrashing,
- total victory,
- trimming,
- triumph,
- trouncing,
- undoing,
- usurpation,
- vamp,
- vampire,
- vanquishment,
- victory,
- walkaway,
- walkover,
- Waterloo,
- whipping,
- win,
- winning,
- winning streak