CONQUEST

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conquest mean? 

• CONQUEST (noun)
  The noun CONQUEST has 3 senses:

1. the act of conquering

2. success in mastering something difficult

3. an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

  Familiarity information: CONQUEST used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONQUEST (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of conquering

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conquering; conquest; subjection; subjugation

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 2

Meaning:

Success in mastering something difficult

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Context example:

the conquest of space

Hypernyms ("conquest" is a kind of...):

success (an attainment that is successful)

Sense 3

Meaning:

An act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

conquest; seduction

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 

You should come to London to know how to estimate your conquest.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

I had now plenty of water and good things to eat, and my conscience, which had smitten me hard for my desertion, was quieted by the great conquest I had made.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

Even this conquest would appear valuable in her eyes.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

But I doubt whether our conquests in the countries I treat of would be as easy as those of Ferdinando Cortez over the naked Americans.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

What, my friends, is the conquest of one nation by another?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I am influenced—conquered; and the influence is sweeter than I can express; and the conquest I undergo has a witchery beyond any triumph I can win.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was proud of his conquest, proud of tricking Edward, and very proud of marrying privately without his mother's consent.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

She could neither wonder nor condemn, but the belief of his self-conquest brought nothing consolatory to her bosom, afforded no palliation of her distress.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

How colorless by contrast appeared the sinlessness which came from inability to sin, the conquest which was attained by flying from the enemy!

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Under the stress of famine or of conquest they have made their way up here.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)