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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Conquest \Con"quest\, noun [OF. conquest, conqueste, F. conqu[^e]te, LL. conquistum, conquista, prop. p. p. from L. conquirere. See {Conquer}.]
1. The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory.
In joys of conquest he resigns his breath. --Addison.
Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country. --Prescott.
2. That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home? --Shak.
3. (Feudal Law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition. --Blackstone.
4. The act of gaining or regaining by successful struggle; as, the conquest of liberty or peace.
{The Conquest} (Eng. Hist.), the subjugation of England by William of Normandy in 1066. The {Norman Conquest}.
Syn: Victory; triumph; mastery; reduction; subjugation; subjection.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
conquest
noun
1: the act of conquering [syn: {conquering}, {subjection}, {subjugation}]
2: success in mastering something difficult; "the conquest of space"
3: an act of winning the love or sexual favor of someone [syn: {seduction}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
88 Moby Thesaurus words for "conquest": Cadmean victory, KO, Pyrrhic victory, Waterloo, adoption, appropriation, arrogation, ascendancy, assumption, beating, captive, catch, championship, collapse, colonization, conquering, coquette, crash, date, deathblow, debacle, defeat, defeating, destruction, domination, downfall, drubbing, easy victory, enslavement, failure, fall, flirt, grand slam, hiding, honey, indent, knockout, lambasting, landslide, landslide victory, lathering, licking, mastery, moral victory, occupation, overcoming, overthrow, overturn, picnic, preemption, preoccupation, prepossession, pushover, quietus, requisition, rout, routing, ruin, runaway victory, smash, steady, subdual, subduing, subjection, subjugation, success, sweet patootie, sweetheart, sweetie, takeover, taking over, thrashing, total victory, trimming, triumph, trouncing, undoing, usurpation, vamp, vampire, vanquishment, victory, walkaway, walkover, whipping, win, winning, winning streak
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