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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1. 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.

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. Boris Johnson:

   Now we see [Putin] for what he is — a bloodstained aggressor who believes in imperial conquest.

5. A. W. Tozer:

   Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our accepting and willing are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God.