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conquistador
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n. A conqueror, but especially one of the Spanish soldiers that invaded Central America and South America in the 16th century and defeated the Incas and Aztecs
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Conquistador is a 2003 alternate history novel by S. M. Stirling . Its point of divergence occurs when the empire of Alexander the Great endures long after Alexander's death, creating a markedly different history that prevents the European conquest of the ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Coronado was a far kinder conquistador than his ruthless contemporaries Pizarro and De Soto, but he was equally obsessed with gold. ▪ If educated people without conquistador bloodlines can never rise far, it is no use giving ...
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Conquistadors were burned by day in the Andean sun, frostbitten by night, malnourished by any good dietary standard, often half-starved for oxygen.
I finished by gathering together all the town of Chac Xulub Chen, I, Don Pablo Pech, and my father, Don Martin Pech, Conquistador of Xulkum Cheel.
He also knew I am something of an expert in Old Quechua and in the history of the Incan Empire and the fate of its peoples after their conquest by the Spanish conquistador Pizarro.
One could choose to wear either the weapons and armor of the conquistadors, or of the Incas.
There was an Order of Conquistadors ring on the pinky of his left hand.
And as for some dying Spanish conquistadors ending up in a hell like this, hundreds of miles from the nearest reliable river, well, Longarm could not imagine the anguish they must have felt or even why they would come so far to get themselves into such a terrible situation.
It was true, even if these people had lived in this place long before the Spanish conquistadors first brought horses to North America.
It was three blocks south of the heart of Moonlight Cove, on the east side of Conquistador Avenue, a street named for the fact that Spanish conquerors had bivouacked in that area centuries earlier, when accompanying the Catholic clergy along the California coast to establish missions.
Funeral Home, the only mortuary in Moonlight Cove, on the east side of Juniper Lane, which ran parallel to Conquistador but was one block closer to the sea.
Ella and Denver Simpson lived in a cream-colored, tile-roofed Spanish house on the other side of Conquistador and two blocks north, just beyond the old Catholic cemetery and one block this side of Ocean Avenue.
Denver drew the drapes at the front window that looked out on Conquistador Avenue, then came to the graveyard-side window on which Harry was focused.
Talbot house on Conquistador was a three-story redwood with lots of big windows.
During that reconnoitering, looking cast past the alleyway at the back of the lot, toward Conquistador, she saw a part of the big redwood-and-glass house on the east side of that street.
The channel went underground at Conquistador and stayed subterranean not just through the intersection but for two entire blocks, surfacing again at Roshmore.
We just may have discovered the first Spanish conquistador ever knocked off by local redskins.