conqueror
pronunciation
How to pronounce conqueror in British English:
UK [ˈkɒŋkərə(r)]
How to pronounce conqueror in American English:
US [ˈkɑŋkərə(r)]
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- Noun:
- someone who is victorious by force of arms
Word Origin
- conqueror (n.)
- c. 1300, from Anglo-French conquerour, Old French conquereor, from Old French conquerre (see conquer). Another early form was conquestor. William the Conqueror so called from early 12c. in Anglo-Latin: Guillelmus Magus id est conquæstor rex Anglorum.
Synonym
Example
- 1. It was the speech of a conqueror in a hostile capital .
- 2. I would not listen to a conqueror preaching to the conquered .
- 3. He was a conqueror -- a general who controlled sci-fi armies and determined the fate of civilization .
- 4. Idi amin , uganda 's former tyrant and the self-styled conqueror of the british empire , had five , though he dismembered one of them .
- 5. The barriers to unity presented by european geography and very limited technology made it hard for a would-be conqueror to create a vast empire , eliminating competitors and imposing his will over vast areas .