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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1830, from Spanish conquistador, literally "conqueror," noun of action from conquistar "to conquer," from Vulgar Latin conquistare, from Latin conquistus, past participle of conquirere "to seek for" (see conquer).
Wiktionary
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
WordNet
n. an adventurer (especially one who led the Spanish conquest of Mexico and Peru in the 16th century)
[also: conquistadores (pl)]
Wikipedia
Conquistadors (from Portuguese or Spanish conquistadores "conquerors"; , , ) is a term used to refer to the soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense. During the Age of Discovery, conquistadors sailed beyond Europe to the Americas, Oceania, Africa and Asia, conquering territory and opening trade routes. They colonized much of the world for Spain and Portugal in the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries.
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 Americas. Most of the story is set in the parallel universe affected by this history.
Conquistador is a board game simulating the exploration of the New World in the 16th century. Players take on the role of European countries sending expeditions to find gold and establish colonies. Although the design uses the trappings of board wargames such as a hex map, combat is not a major part of the game. It was designed by Richard Berg and originally published by Simulations Publications, Inc. as Conquistador! in 1976, then republished by Avalon Hill in 1981.
Conquistador is a term used for a soldier, explorer, or adventurer that expanded Spain's colonial rule between the 15th and 17th centuries.
Conquistador may also refer to:
In sport:
- Conquistador Cielo (1979–2002), a racehorse bred in Florida
- Conquistador I, a ring name of José Estrada, Sr., a Puerto Rican professional wrestler
- Dodge City Community College, a public community college located in Dodge City, Kansas
- Florida National University, a university in Hialeah, Florida
- Los Conquistadores, a professional wrestling tag team
- Pasco–Hernando State College, a college in New Port Richey, Florida
- San Diego Conquistadors, a basketball team in the American Basketball Association in the 1970s
In the arts:
- "Conquistador" (Da Vinci song), a song performed by Da Vinci at the 1989 Eurovision Song Contest
- "Conquistador" (Procol Harum song), a song written by Gary Brooker and Keith Reid for Procol Harum
- "Conquistador" (Thirty Seconds to Mars song), a song recorded by Thirty Seconds to Mars
- Conquistador (album), an album by the Spanish-American rock group Alpha Union
- Conquistador (game), a board game simulating the exploration of the New World in the 16th century
- Conquistador (Maynard Ferguson album), an album by Canadian jazz trumpeter Maynard Ferguson
- Conquistador (novel), an alternate history novel by S. M. Stirling
- Conquistadors (TV series), a BBC documentary series on the Spanish expeditions of conquest of the Americas
- Conquistadores, a volume of the manga Bleach
- Conquistador, a poem written by Australian poet A. D. Hope
In other uses:
- Conquistador Council, a Boy Scouts of America local council in New Mexico
"Conquistador" is a song by the British psychedelic rock band Procol Harum. Written by Gary Brooker and Keith Reid, it originally appeared on the band's 1967 self-titled debut album. It was later released as a single from the band's 1972 live album Procol Harum Live In Concert with the Edmonton Symphony Orchestra. It is one of the band's most famous and popular songs and their third Top 40 hit on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 (after 1967's " A Whiter Shade of Pale" and " Homburg"), peaking at number 16.
"Conquistador" (Conqueror) was the Portuguese entry in the Eurovision Song Contest 1989, performed in Portuguese by Da Vinci.
The song reminisces about the former Portuguese colonial possessions worldwide. Lead singer Tei Or takes the role of the Portuguese state and sings that she has been to Brazil, Praia, Bissau, Angola, Mozambique, Goa, Macau and " Timor" (the last a reference to East Timor).
The song was performed ninth on the night, following Norway's Britt Synnøve with " Venners nærhet" and preceding Sweden's Tommy Nilsson with " En dag". At the close of voting, it had received 39 points, placing 16th in a field of 22.
It was succeeded as Portuguese representative at the 1990 Contest by Nucha with Há Sempre Alguém.
Category:Eurovision songs of Portugal Category:Portuguese-language songs Category:Eurovision songs of 1989 Category:1989 songs
"Conquistador" is a song by American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, featured on their fourth studio album Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams (2013). Written by lead vocalist Jared Leto, who also produced the song with Steve Lillywhite, "Conquistador" features combative lyrics and call-and-response verses. Described as the "wild child" of the album, it is an alternative rock song with influences and elements from electronica. Thirty Seconds to Mars premiered the song on Vevo on May 2, 2013, two weeks before the album's release.
"Conquistador" received mostly positive reviews from music critics, who praised the composition and its raw energy. The song appeared on the UK Rock Chart upon the album's release at number 24 for a single week, being one of two songs from Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams to appear on the chart, the other being " City of Angels". Thirty Seconds to Mars included the song in the setlist of their Love, Lust, Faith and Dreams Tour and the subsequent Carnivores Tour.
Usage examples of "conquistador".
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.