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Definition of Conqueror

1. Noun. Someone who is victorious by force of arms.

Definition of Conqueror

1. n. One who conquers.

Definition of Conqueror

1. Noun. Someone who conquers ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Conqueror

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Conqueror

Literary usage of Conqueror

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Short History of the English People by John Richard Green (1907)
"conqueror Sue. iv drink save the juice which his hand had squeezed for them ... The conqueror, 1042—1066 [Authorities.—Primarily the " Gesta Willelmi " of ..."

2. Lives of the Lord Chancellors and Keepers of the Great Seal of England from by John Campbell Campbell (1845)
"He was associated with Godfrey, Bishop of Constance, the grand Justiciary, in the government of the AD 1087. country while the conqueror was engaged in his ..."

3. The History of the Norman Conquest of England: Its Causes and Its Results by Edward Augustus Freeman (1876)
"But the conqueror, by separating the ecclesiastical and temporal ... We have seen that William the conqueror had always steadily maintained that supremacy ..."

4. War Powers Under the Constitution of the United States by William Whiting (1864)
"If the humanity of the conqueror allows the rigid rules of martial law to be relaxed, and permits the forms of local jurisprudence to be continued under the ..."

5. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1887)
"and Scythia with the authority of a conqueror, and sometimes the cruelty of a tyrant. But he reigned over a part of the globe incapable of perpetuating and ..."

6. The History of England by David Hume, Tobias George Smollett (1825)
"WILLIAM THE conqueror. Consequences of the battle of Hastings—Submission of the English—Settlement of the government—King's return to Normandy —Discontents ..."

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