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CONQUEST
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Success in mastering something difficult
Example:
the conquest of space
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("conquest" is a kind of...):
success (an attainment that is successful)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of conquering
Synonyms:
conquering; conquest; subjection; subjugation
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("conquest" is a kind of...):
capture; gaining control; seizure (the act of forcibly dispossessing an owner of property)
Instance hyponyms:
Norman Conquest (the invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the battle of Hastings (1066))
Sense 3
Meaning:
An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone
Synonyms:
conquest; seduction
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("conquest" is a kind of...):
success (an attainment that is successful)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conquest"):
score; sexual conquest (a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse)
Context examples:
In the prayer following the chapter, all his energy gathered—all his stern zeal woke: he was in deep earnest, wrestling with God, and resolved on a conquest.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Let me congratulate you on a very important conquest.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
Sir John did not much understand this reproof; but he laughed as heartily as if he did, and then replied, Ay, you will make conquests enough, I dare say, one way or other.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
He was a heavy young man, with not more than common sense; but as there was nothing disagreeable in his figure or address, the young lady was well pleased with her conquest.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
In the long lists by the Garonne on the landward side of the northern gate there had been many a strange combat, when the Teutonic knight, fresh from the conquest of the Prussian heathen, ran a course against the knight of Calatrava, hardened by continual struggle against the Moors, or cavaliers from Portugal broke a lance with Scandinavian warriors from the further shore of the great Northern Ocean.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The delightful assurance of her total indifference towards Frank Churchill, of her having a heart completely disengaged from him, had given birth to the hope, that, in time, he might gain her affection himself;—but it had been no present hope—he had only, in the momentary conquest of eagerness over judgment, aspired to be told that she did not forbid his attempt to attach her.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
But those fierce fights, when in the dawn of the ages the cave-dwellers held their own against the tiger folk, or the elephants first found that they had a master, those were the real conquests—the victories that count.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Before we had been out two hours, we were deep in a confidential conversation: she had favoured me with a description of the brilliant winter she had spent in London two seasons ago—of the admiration she had there excited—the attention she had received; and I even got hints of the titled conquest she had made.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
She had dressed with more than usual care, and prepared in the highest spirits for the conquest of all that remained unsubdued of his heart, trusting that it was not more than might be won in the course of the evening.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
My cousins say they are sure I have made a conquest; but for my part I declare I never think about him from one hour's end to another.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
