reconquest

Noun

Meaning

A second conquest.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

recovery recover regain reclaim retake recapture regaining reconquer Reconquista retaking Reclaiming reoccupation winback

Antonyms

relapse vandalize

Examples

A fleet under Salvador de Sá retook Luanda for Portugal in 1648; reconquest of the rest of the territory was completed by 1650. Source: Internet

After dynastic quarrels however, there was a Christian reconquest in 1072. Source: Internet

As many as 20,000 of the total 30,000 soldiers died resisting what was effectively a Russian reconquest. Source: Internet

It became a diocese in 1263 after its Reconquista (reconquest) from the Moors. Source: Internet

Anonymus Valesianus, 11.53 Pierius' grant is the lone surviving document which has survived from the civic scriptorium of Syracuse prior to the Byzantine reconquest. Source: Internet

By the middle of the 15th century, this reconquest was almost complete, but Spain was still a hodgepodge of competing principalities and, because of its constant state of warfare, still a very backward country. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

reconquer reconquerable reconqueror Reconquista reconscript reconscription