conquest

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.

   “Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persians”

2. (broadly, countable, figuratively, often, uncountable)An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles.

   “Mankind's conquest of space”

   “Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country.”

   “The conquest of the earth, which mostly means the taking it away from those who have a different complexion or slightly flatter noses than ourselves, is not a pretty thing when you look into it too much.”

   “Therefore, this dream of the human conquest of selfishness appeared devoid of any strong sense of the necessity of internal struggle to overcome it”

3. (countable, uncountable)That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.

   “Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?”

4. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.

   “What we call purchase, perquisitio, the feudists called conquest, conqucestus, or conquisitio”

5. (colloquial, countable, figuratively, uncountable)A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.

   “And, crowning glory of the evening! a conquest was made, a conquest so sudden, so brilliant, and so obvious, that it was enough to give any fête at which it occurred the immortality of a season.”

6. (countable, uncountable)A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.

verb

1. To compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products adjacent to editorial content relating to the competitor or by using terms and keywords for one's own products that are currently associated with the competitor.
2. (archaic)To conquer.

name

1. The personification of conquest, often depicted riding a white horse.
2. An English surname from Old French, from Old French conqueste (“conquest”), probably originally a nickname.
3. A town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.
4. A village in the Rural Municipality of Fertile Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada.