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. Peter Pal Varga:

   This is a period of conquest for private clinics.

2. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness:

   The conquest of the earth... is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much. What redeems it is the idea only... not a sentimental pretence but an idea.

3. 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.

4. Asya Engovatova:

   Batu Khans conquest was the greatest national tragedy, surpassing any other event in cruelty and destruction, it is not by chance that it is among the few such events that made its way into the Russian folklore.

5. John Kenneth Galbraith, The Affluent Society (1958):

   People are the common denominator of progress. So... no improvement is possible with unimproved people, and advance is certain when people are liberated and educated. It would be wrong to dismiss the importance of roads, railroads, power plants, mills, and the other familiar furniture of economic development.... But we are coming to realize... that there is a certain sterility in economic monuments that stand alone in a sea of illiteracy. Conquest of illiteracy comes first.