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kwɛst, ˈkɒŋ- noun
1.
the act or state of conquering or the state of being conquered; vanquishment.
2.
the winning of favor, affection, love, etc.: the conquest of Antony by Cleopatra.
3.
a person whose favor, affection, etc., has been won: He's another one of her conquests.
4.
anything acquired by conquering, as a nation, a territory, or spoils.
5.
the Conquest, Norman Conquest.
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So is interrobang. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| 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. |
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conquest (ˈkɒnkwɛst, ˈkɒŋ-) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the act or an instance of conquering or the state of having been conquered; victory |
| 2. | a person, thing, etc, that has been conquered or won |
| 3. | the act or art of gaining a person's compliance, love, etc, by seduction or force of personality |
| 4. | a person, whose compliance, love, etc, has been won over by seduction or force of personality |
| [C13: from Old French conqueste, from Vulgar Latin conquēsta (unattested), from Latin conquīsīta, feminine past participle of conquīrere to seek out, procure; see | |
| Conquest (ˈkɒnkwɛst, ˈkɒŋ-) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | the Conquest See Norman Conquest |
| 2. | (Canadian) the Conquest the conquest by the United Kingdom of French North America, ending in 1763 |
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Word Origin & History
conquest
c.1300, a merged word from O.Fr. conquest "acquisition" (Mod.Fr. conquêt), and O.Fr. conqueste "conquest, acquisition" (Mod.Fr. conquête), both from pp. of conquerre, from V.L. *conquærere (see conquer).
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