conqueror
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kər noun
a person who conquers or vanquishes; victor.
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| —vb | |
| 1. | to overcome (an enemy, army, etc); defeat |
| 2. | to overcome (an obstacle, feeling, desire, etc); surmount |
| 3. | (tr) to gain possession or control of by or as if by force or war; win |
| 4. | (tr) to gain the love, sympathy, etc, of (someone) by seduction or force of personality |
| [C13: from Old French conquerre, from Vulgar Latin conquērere (unattested) to obtain, from Latin conquīrere to search for, collect, from quaerere to seek] | |
| 'conquerable | |
| —adj | |
| 'conquerableness | |
| —n | |
| 'conquering | |
| —adj | |
| 'conqueror | |
| —n | |
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Conqueror
is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a fool or simpleton; ninny. |
| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| Conqueror (ˈkɒŋkərə) | |
| —n | |
| William the. See William I | |
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Word Origin & History
conqueror
c.1300, from Anglo-Fr. conquerour (O.Fr. conquereor), from O.Fr. conquerre (see conquer). Another early form was conquestor. William the Conqueror so called from early 12c. in Anglo-L.: Guillelmus Magus id est conquæstor rex Anglorum.
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Example sentences
Unfortunately, this putative conqueror of the common cold loses its potency rather quickly when exposed to air.
From this time the conqueror treated him with honour.
One continent conqueror looks after the interest of another.
It is what comes after that truly tests the resolve of the conqueror and slowly drains away victory.
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