Other forms: conquerors
A conqueror is somebody who takes a country by force. The Norman conqueror, a great conqueror, William the Conqueror.
The title sticks to very few names, and it is given by the victors' descendants rather than by the conquered. Note the spelling: conqueror ends in -or where most agent nouns end in -er, which catches people out constantly.
1nounconquerorSomebody who takes a country by force.
“The conquerors burned the city and made its people slaves.”
conqueror is a person.
Old French conquereor comes from conquerre, from Latin conquirere, to seek out — con plus quaerere, to seek.
Old French
conquereor
Middle English
conquerour
English, today
conqueror
From Middle English conquerour, from Old French conquereor, from conquerre. by surface analysis, conquer + -or.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA