Klryz
Pronunciation guide: IPA symbols, stress and word endings

Vowels

iːseeɪsite / ɛbedæcat
ɑːfatherɒhot (UK)ɔːlawʊput
uːtooʌcupɜːbirdəabout
eɪdayaɪmyɔɪboyaʊnow
əʊ / oʊgo (UK / US)ɪəneareəhairʊətour

Consonants that look unusual

θthinðthisʃsheʒmeasure
tʃchurchdʒjudgeŋsingjyes

p b t d k g f v s z h m n l r w sound as in ordinary English spelling.

Marks

  • ˈ main stress, before the stressed syllable: /ˈwɔːtə/ water · ˌ lighter (secondary) stress: /ˌʌndəˈstænd/ understand
  • ː a long vowel · (r) an r said only in accents that pronounce it (most American, Scottish, Irish)

Common word endings

  • -s / -es (plurals; he/she form of verbs): /s/ after voiceless sounds (cats), /z/ after voiced (dogs), /ɪz/ after s, z, sh, ch, j sounds (buses, watches). Spelling: -es after s, x, z, ch, sh; consonant + y → -ies (city → cities).
  • -ed (past): /t/ after voiceless sounds (walked), /d/ after voiced (played), /ɪd/ after t or d (wanted). Spelling: love → loved, stop → stopped, carry → carried.
  • -ing: make → making, run → running, see → seeing.
  • Irregular: go, went, gone · be, was, been · see, saw, seen · man → men · child → children · mouse → mice.
  • Older (King James) forms: -eth = -s (he loveth = he loves) · -est with “thou” (thou lovest) · spake = spoke.

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conquest

UK /ˈkɒŋkwɛst/ · US /ˈkɑnkwɛst/ noun, verb, proper noun

Forms conquests conquesting conquested

  1. noun An act or instance of achieving victory through combat; the subjugation of an enemy. “Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persians”
  2. noun (by extension, often figuratively) An act or instance of gaining control of or mastery over something, overcoming obstacles. “Mankind's conquest of space”
  3. noun That which is conquered; possession gained by mental or physical effort, force, or struggle.
  4. noun (obsolete, feudal law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
  5. noun (colloquial, figurative) A person whose romantic affections one has gained, or with whom one has had sex, or the act of gaining another's romantic affections.
  6. noun (video games) A competitive mode found in first-person shooter games in which competing teams (usually two) attempt to take over predetermined spawn points labeled by flags.
  7. verb (marketing) To compete with an established competitor by placing advertisements for one's own products adjacent to editorial content relating to the competitor or by using terms and keywords for one's own products that are currently associated with the competitor.
  8. verb (archaic) To conquer.
  9. proper noun The personification of conquest, often depicted riding a white horse.
  10. proper noun An English surname from Old French, from Old French conqueste (“conquest”), probably originally a nickname.
  11. proper noun A town in Cayuga County, New York, United States.
  12. proper noun A village in the Rural Municipality of Fertile Valley, Saskatchewan, Canada.

Synonyms

Pestilence white rider conquering subjection subjugation seduction

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English conquest, borrowed from Old French conqueste.

Inherited from Middle English conquesten, borrowed from Middle French conquester, from Old French conquester.

Webster’s 1913

  1. noun The act or process of conquering, or acquiring by force; the act of overcoming or subduing opposition by force, whether physical or moral; subjection; subjugation; victory.
  2. noun That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.

Etymology [OF. conquest, conqueste, F. conquête, LL. conquistum, conquista, prop. p.p. from L. conquirere. See Conquer.]

Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “conquest”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details

Sanskrit

Sanskrit dictionary entries whose meaning includes “conquest” (best matches first).

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