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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. A conqueror, especially one of the 16th-century Spanish soldiers who defeated the Indian civilizations of Mexico, Central America, or Peru.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. n. A conqueror: applied to the conquerors of Spanish America.

Wiktionary

  1. n. A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish soldiers that invaded Central and South America in the 16th century and defeated the Incas and Aztecs

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)

Etymologies

  1. From Spanish conquistador. (Wiktionary)
  2. Spanish, from conquistar, to conquer, from Vulgar Latin *conquīsītāre, frequentative of Latin conquīrere, to procure; see conquer. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Justo Sierra, the turn-of-the century Mexican educator, said that "the grocer, not the conquistador, is the real Spanish father of Mexican society", succinctly summing up the tremendous importance of the dietary changes brought on by Spanish colonization.”

    A Guide to Mexican Cheese: Queso Mexicano

  • “In his book, Milicia y descripción de Las Indias, which might be described as a conquistador's handbook, Vargas Machuca devotes a special chapter to the treatment of wounds and illness.”

    Pestilence and Headcolds: Encountering Illness in Colonial Mexico

  • “Fitzcarraldo, which concerns a so-called "conquistador of the useless" who wants to build an opera house in the Peruvian jungle and who orchestrates a boat being pulled across a mountain, he says: "You are talking so far in retrospect-that's three decades back.”

    Slate Magazine

  • “Several of his officers had observed this to him, and especially Orgoños, who proposed that the two brothers of the "conquistador" should be put to death, and that”

    Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World

  • “In finishing this portrait of the "conquistador," we shall quote the upright and veracious Bernal Diaz, with whose sentiments we fully agree.”

    Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World

  • “The man looked like a "conquistador" and the woman had "flowing red hair.”

    American Thinker

  • “In addition to the expected terms, keywords targeted to the TV ads like "shoe circus," "conquistador" and”

    SearchViews

  • “Good intention often thwarted by the 'conquistador' syndrome”

    Eric Mack On-Line

  • “conquistador" had no longer anything to expect from government.”

    Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part I. The Exploration of the World

  • “As Spanish conquistador Cortés 'forces continue their siege of Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital, they deliberately break the Chapultepec aqueduct (the city's main fresh water supply) in order to force the Aztecs to surrender.”

    Mexico this month - May

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