Difficulty Level
intermediate
Translations
🇩🇪 Eroberung
, 🇪🇸 conquista
, 🇮🇹 conquista
, 🇵🇹 conquista
, 🇨🇳 征服
, 🇯🇵 制圧
, 🇰🇷 정복
, 🇸🇦 حَصْب
, 🇮🇳 बल्लभता
Usage Examples
- La conquête de l'espace fascine les jeunes rêveurs.
- Sa victoire à la compétition a marqué la conquête d'un nouveau record.
- L'entreprise vise la conquête d'un marché européen.
Etymology
**Conquête** comes from Old French *conquêt*, itself borrowed from Latin *conquestio* (“the act of conquering”), a noun derived from the verb *conquere* (“to conquer”). The Latin verb blends the prefix *con-* (“together, with”) with *quaere* (“to seek, to strive”), so the sense is “to seek together for a goal, to take possession.” The word entered French in the 12th century and the spelling *conquête* became fixed by the 17th century.
Synonyms
victoire
prise
domination
acquisition
emprise
succès
conquête
Antonyms
défaite
retrait
échec
capitulation
abandon
