CONQUEROR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does conqueror mean? 

• CONQUEROR (noun)
  The noun CONQUEROR has 1 sense:

1. someone who is victorious by force of arms

  Familiarity information: CONQUEROR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONQUEROR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is victorious by force of arms

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

conqueror; vanquisher

Hypernyms ("conqueror" is a kind of...):

master; superior; victor (a combatant who is able to defeat rivals)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "conqueror"):

subjugator (a conqueror who defeats and enslaves)

Instance hyponyms:

Alexander; Alexander the Great (king of Macedon; conqueror of Greece and Egypt and Persia; founder of Alexandria (356-323 BC))

Derivation:

conquer (bring under control by force or authority)

conquer (overcome by conquest)

 Context examples 

It was the hardest battle I had fought, and the first victory I had gained: I stood awhile on the rug, where Mr. Brocklehurst had stood, and I enjoyed my conqueror's solitude.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

That done, said King Pedro, glancing out of the corners of his eyes at the young conqueror, we shall unite the forces of England, of Aquitaine, of Spain and of Majorca.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Time! was duly called, and the Jews, seeing that the affair was over, let their man’s head fall back with a crack upon the floor, and there he lay, his huge arms and legs asprawl, whilst the Corinthians and fighting-men crowded past him to shake the hand of his conqueror.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Dr. Van Helsing is sleeping, Poor dear, he looks very tired and old and grey, but his mouth is set as firmly as a conqueror's; even in his sleep he is instinct with resolution.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

He would tell the history of the mighty river so rapidly explored (for some of the first conquerors of Peru actually crossed the entire continent upon its waters), and yet so unknown in regard to all that lay behind its ever-changing banks.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Conqueror I might be of the house; but the inmate would escape to heaven before I could call myself possessor of its clay dwelling-place.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

By his wise precaution the seats had been allotted beforehand, so that the gentlemen might be scattered among the professionals and no risk run of two enemies finding themselves together, or a man who had been recently beaten falling into the company of his conqueror.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Startled at being thus addressed, I did not immediately reply: after a moment's hesitation I answered—But are you sure you are not in the position of those conquerors whose triumphs have cost them too dear?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I saw he was of the material from which nature hews her heroes—Christian and Pagan—her lawgivers, her statesmen, her conquerors: a steadfast bulwark for great interests to rest upon; but, at the fireside, too often a cold cumbrous column, gloomy and out of place.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)