conquistador
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- noun
- /kɒŋˈkɪstəˌdɔr/
- When the Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés arrived in Mexico, he sought to conquer the Aztec Empire.
- Spanish conquistador
- early conquistador
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Examples
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We learned more about the Spanish conquistadores and the resistance to them by the native Mexicans.
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It was probably cleaned out by Spanish conquistadores.
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This is the only place the conquistadors never found
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It's what the conquistadors were after.
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There's conquistador gold on the island.
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And there hasn't been a conquistador here for three centuries.
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When the Spanish conquistadors came, they searched for that canyon.
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The earliest, related by Spanish conquistador Bartholome Ruiz, was the most important.
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Much of this critique focuses on Columbus and the actions of the Spanish conquistadors.
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In many ways, the Conquistadors were the products of the centralization that began with Ferdinand and Isabella.
Academic text (2011)
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word conquistador comes from Spanish conquistar, which means 'to conquer', and the ending -dor means 'one who does something'. So a conquistador is literally 'one who conquers', which is why the word was used for the Spanish soldiers who took control of lands in the Americas.