Synonyms for conquest
ˈkɒn kwɛst, ˈkɒŋ-con·quest

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1. conquest

   Victory is the state resulting from the overcoming of an opponent or opponents in any contest, or from the overcoming of difficulties, obstacles, evils, etc., considered as opponents or enemies. In the latter sense any hard-won achievement, advantage, or success may be termed a victory. In conquest and mastery there is implied a permanence of state that is not implied in victory. Triumph, originally denoting the public rejoicing in honor of a victory, has come to signify also a peculiarly exultant, complete, and glorious victory. Compare CONQUER.

   Synonyms:
   achievement, advantage, mastery, success, supremacy, triumph, victory

   Antonyms:
   defeat, destruction, disappointment, disaster, failure, frustration, miscarriage, overthrow, retreat, rout

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1. conquest

   Synonyms:
   victory, triumph, overthrow, discomfiture, subjugation

   Antonyms:
   failure, defeat, retreat, surrender, forfeiture, submission, discomfiture

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1. conquest, conquering, subjection, subjugationnoun

   the act of conquering

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, conquering, subjection, oppression, seduction

2. conquestnoun

   success in mastering something difficult

   "the conquest of space"

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, conquering, subjection, seduction

3. seduction, conquestnoun

   an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, conquering, subjection, seduction

Matched Categories

1. • Capture
   • Success

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1. conquestnoun

   Synonyms:
   subjugation, subjection, mastery, reduction, overthrow, rout

2. conquestnoun

   Synonyms:
   victory, triumph

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1. conquestnoun

   Synonyms:
   subjection, subjugation, victory, mastery, triumph, reduction, overthrow, rout

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1. List of paraphrases for "conquest":

   achievement, subjugation, victory

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How to use conquest in a sentence?

1. Toumba Mohamed:

   The resistance was fierce. The enemy even had armored personnel carriers, our objective is the conquest of territory and the elimination of targets, so it's good to grind down the enemy in front of us.

2. Rod Serling:

   The tools of conquest do not necessarily come with bombs and explosions and fallout. There are weapons that are simply thoughts, attitudes, prejudices -- to be found in the minds of men. For the record, prejudices can kill and suspicion can destroy, and a thoughtless, frightened search for a scapegoat has a fallout all its own -- for the children and the children yet unborn. And the pity of it is that these things cannot be confined to the Twilight Zone.

3. Simms:

   The true law of the race is progress and development. Whatever civilization pauses in the march of conquest, it is overthrown by the barbarian.

4. Melanie Giles:

   It really is absolutely a unique find in the British Isles and in the wider continent, we dont have another burial that combines this quality of weaponry andCeltic artwith a date that puts it around the time of Caesars attempted conquest of Britain.

5. Maria Montessori:

   An educational method that shall have liberty as its basis must intervene to help the child to a conquest of liberty. That is to say, his training must be such as shall help him to diminish as much as possible the social bonds which limit his activity.