CONQUEST


Meaning of CONQUEST in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

military

Henry wanted nothing less than military conquest .

First Campaigns Among the many achievements of Charles, the most obvious is the extent of his military conquests .

In terms of military conquest , a considerable difference existed between the conditions encountered in the north and the south of Siberia.

norman

Aksum had outlasted Jerusalem and Rome, going down in ruin only eighty years before the Norman conquest of Britain.

The situation grew dramatic with the Norman conquest of Sicily.

The parish boundaries were often indistinct until after the Norman conquest , but there may have been 150 of these by 1066.

His final resting place alongside 19 generations of his family dating back before the Norman conquest .

It arose as a consequence of the Norman conquest and settlement of the Vale of Glamorgan in the early twelfth century.

roman

Like Polybius, we repeat, he did not question the Roman conquests as such.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

military conquests

The palace was built in Cordoba, Spain, following the Arab conquest .

The Roman legions left, opening the way for the conquest of the British Isles by the Germanic tribes.

These men seek power through sexual conquests.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Cis was also his first conquest .

He went downstairs, finished his column, then shaved and bathed and went out to the office ripe for conquest .

His conquests transformed the ancient world and ushered in the Hellenistic age of great monarchies.

History is the story of conquest .

In this first phase of conquest , the Arabs created an Empire and a State, but not yet a civilization.

It arose from the recent conquest of the northern coastal area as far as Anglesey by his friend Hugh, earl of Chester.

They were the legates of conquest .

Was it only a desire for conquest ?

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