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someone who hasconqueredacountryoritspeople 征服者;胜利者SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrasesSoldiers & people who fight in wars - anti-guerrilla
- Anzac
- berserker
- capability
- cavalryman
- combat engineer
- comrade
- ex-serviceman
- ex-servicewoman
- foot soldier
- headhunter
- paramilitary
- raider
- recruit
- scout
- shogun
- skirmisher
- soldier of fortune
- squaddie
- vassal
See more results » (Definition ofconquerorfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)- All these several nations were sooner or later reduced into subjection by the Romans, but the conquerors themselves give us the most glorious testimony to their valor.
- The German Emperor must stand either as a pacifist or as a conqueror.
- The conquerors adopted one religion, while the conquered retained the other, and thus a new and most enduring barrier was raised between the two nations in Ireland, and a pernicious antagonism was established between law and religion.
- The true foreign yoke was only felt when England saw its conqueror in William the Norman.
- They were awed by the presence of the conqueror of Egypt and of Europe.
Examplesofconquerorconqueror At every stage she is at pains to highlight any of the scanty evidence of co-operation between conquerors and conquered.From theCambridge English Corpus Each new group of arrivals, or conquerors, to use their more militaristic and bombastic term, imposed its culture and its ways on the autochthonous commoners.From theCambridge English Corpus By appropriating this capital, one holds the status ofconquerorand civilizer.From theCambridge English Corpus In oral traditions common to these areas, we find a distinction between an elite group of 'civilized ' conquerors and 'uncultured' commoners.From theCambridge English Corpus We learn that notions of what comprises childhood differed between the conquerors and the indigenous peoples, but that the latter's notion endured.From theCambridge English Corpus In these narratives, other communities and, even, parts of one's own community emerge as scheming villains, conquerors, victims, traitors, friends, enemies and protectors.From theCambridge English Corpus In practice, the transition from ' grunt' to 'conqueror', that is from programmer to manager, very often happens at a ' young' age (the late twenties or early thirties).From theCambridge English Corpus Third, many of the conquerors' actions would have led to increased mortality, even without the concurring action of new diseases.From theCambridge English Corpus On the basis of this reasoning, the customs of the conquered held an advantage over those of theconquerorby virtue of the fact that they already enjoyed support.From theCambridge English Corpus The debate turned on questions about the rights and duties of conquerors regarding the acquisition of new territories, and the problem of concluding a just and durable settlement.From theCambridge English Corpus The main aim of tsarism in the region was the military repression of the local population's resistance to the conquerors and securing the permanent public status of the country.From theCambridge English Corpus It is not really accurate to call them 'indigenous peoples', since many of the residents were themselves immigrants or conquerors who arrived before the next wave of pioneer settlers.From theCambridge English Corpus However, the evidence reveals that local elites and rural communities jockeyed for respect and political entitlement through the manipulation of the symbolic capital of theconqueror.From theCambridge English Corpus Sinhalese readers were reminded of their loyalty to their conquerors and their readiness to bear their share in the burden of responsibilities consequent on belonging to a worldwide empire.From theCambridge English Corpus A style like this becomes aconqueror.From theCambridge English Corpus These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. #https://dictionary.cambridge.org//dictionary/english/conqueror## |