"reconquest" meaning in English

See reconquest in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: reconquests [plural]
Etymology: From re- + conquest (noun), probably after either the verb and reconquer, or Middle French reconquest, reconqueste (modern French reconquête). Etymology templates: {{prefix|en|re|conquest#Noun<pos:noun>}} re- + conquest (noun), {{der|en|frm|reconquest}} Middle French reconquest, {{cog|fr|reconquête}} French reconquête Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} reconquest (countable and uncountable, plural reconquests)
  1. The act or process of conquering something again, such as a territory. Tags: countable, uncountable Related terms: reconquer Translations (act or process of conquering again): վերանվաճում (veranvačum) (Armenian), reconquête [feminine] (French), reconquista [feminine] (Galician), Rückeroberung [feminine] (German), riconquista [feminine] (Italian), gjenerobring [feminine, masculine] (Norwegian Bokmål), reconquista [feminine] (Portuguese), recucerire [feminine] (Romanian), ath-cheannsachadh [masculine] (Scottish Gaelic), reconquista [feminine] (Spanish)
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Etymology number: 1

Verb

Forms: reconquests [present, singular, third-person], reconquesting [participle, present], reconquested [participle, past], reconquested [past]
Etymology: From Middle English reconquesten, equivalent to re- + conquest (verb), after either Latin reconquestō or Middle French reconquester. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|reconquesten}} Middle English reconquesten, {{prefix|en|re|conquest#Verb<pos:verb>}} re- + conquest (verb), {{der|en|la|reconquestō}} Latin reconquestō, {{der|en|frm|reconquester}} Middle French reconquester Head templates: {{en-verb}} reconquest (third-person singular simple present reconquests, present participle reconquesting, simple past and past participle reconquested)
  1. (transitive, now rare) Synonym of reconquer. Tags: archaic, transitive Synonyms: reconquer [synonym, synonym-of]
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Etymology number: 2

Inflected forms

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          "text": "The tables being taken vp, the Emperoꝛ pꝛaid the king of Theſſalie to retire himſelfe to the Queen his deare wife, ſéeing the time did then require to be a little together without any beholders to ſtand by. Whervnto he willingly accoꝛded, as well to gratifie him therein, as to quench the deſire which might ſtirre him foꝛward to reconqueſt the place, […]",
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          "ref": "1997, Gabriel Ramis, translated by Lisa Twomey, “Liturgical Families in the West”, in Pontifical Liturgical Institute, edited by Anscar J[avier] Chupungco, Handbook for Liturgical Studies (A Pueblo Book), volume I (Introduction to the Liturgy), Collegeville, Minn.: The Liturgical Press, →ISBN, part I (Preliminary Notions), page 31:",
          "text": "There is no doubt that Ravenna, as an imperial capital (fifth century) and as the Byzantine provincial capital (sixth-seventh centuries), had its influence, whether it was through the Arianism introduced with the conquest of Theodoric, or through the influences of the Byzantine Empire after being reconquested by Belisarion the Byzantine until it fell to the Lombards in 751.",
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