conquest : Idioms & Phrases

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norman conquest

  • noun the invasion and settlement of England by the Normans following the battle of Hastings (1066)
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sexual conquest

  • noun a seduction culminating in sexual intercourse
    score.
    • calling his seduction of the girl a `score' was a typical example of male slang
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The Conquest

  • (Eng. Hist.), the subjugation of England by William of Normandy in 1066.
Webster 1913

vanguards of conquest

  • noun an Islamic extremist group active since the late 1970s; seeks to overthrow the Egyptian government and replace it with an Islamic state; works in small underground cells
    Egyptian Islamic Jihad; Islamic Jihad; al-Jihad.
    • the original Jihad was responsible for the assassination of Anwar Sadat in 1981
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