Conflict vs Conquest - What's the difference?
conflict | conquest |
A clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.
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To be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible
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To overlap (with), as in a schedule.
Victory gained through combat; the subjugation of an enemy.
(figuratively, by extenstion) An act or instance of an obstacle.
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That which is conquered; possession gained by force, physical or moral.
* Shakespeare
(feudal law) The acquiring of property by other means than by inheritance; acquisition.
(colloquial, figurative) A person with whom one has had sex.
As a noun conflict
is a clash or disagreement, often violent, between two opposing groups or individuals.As a verb conflict
is to be at odds (with); to disagree or be incompatible.As a proper noun conquest is
the personification of conquest, (also known as pestilence), often depicted riding a white horse.conflict
English
(wikipedia conflict)Noun
(en noun)Mark Tran
Denied an education by war, passage=One particularly damaging, but often ignored, effect of conflict on education is the proliferation of attacks on schools
Verb
(en verb)- Your conference call conflicts with my older one: please reschedule.
References
* English heteronyms ----conquest
English
(wikipedia conquest)Noun
(en noun)- Three years sufficed for the conquest of the country.
- Wherefore rejoice? What conquest brings he home?
- (Blackstone)