conquest

name

1. The personification of conquest, often depicted riding a white horse.
2. An English surname from Old French, from Old French conqueste (“conquest”), probably originally a nickname.
3. A town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.
4. A village in the Rural Municipality of Fertile Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada.

noun

Etymology: Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin quaerō Latin conquirō Proto-Indo-European *-tus Proto-Italic *-tus Latin -tus Latin conquīsītusder. Old French conquestebor. Middle English conquest English conquest Inherited from Middle English conquest, borrowed from Old French conqueste.

1. An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.

   “Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persians”

2. An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.

   “Mankind's conquest of space”

   “Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country.”

3. That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.

   “Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?”

4. The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

   “What we call purchase, perquisitio, the feudists called conquest, conqucestus, or conquisitio”

5. A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.

   “And, crowning glory of the evening! a conquest was made, a conquest so sudden, so brilliant, and so obvious, that it was enough to give any fête at which it occurred the immortality of a season.”

6. 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.

verb

Etymology: Etymology tree Medieval Latin conquestōlbor. Old French conquester Middle French conquesterbor. Middle English conquesten English conquest Inherited from Middle English conquesten, borrowed from Middle French conquester, from Old French conquester.

1. To conquer.