📖 C — The English dictionary · page 64

connotation — Everyday, meaning 1: A feeling or idea that a word suggests, in addition to its basic meaning.↗ For example, «home» means a place to live, but it suggests warmth and safety.↗ Example: The word "home" has connotations of warmth and safety.↗ · "Stubborn" and "determined" have different connotations.↗ · Red can have connotations of danger or of love.↗ · The poet chose words with dark connotations to create fear.↗ · "Cheap" can have negative connotations, while "good value" sounds positive.↗ · Discuss the connotations of the word "storm" in the poem.↗

conquer — Everyday, meaning 1: To conquer a country or people means to take control of them by fighting.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To conquer a problem or a fear means to deal with it successfully and beat it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To conquer a mountain means to climb to the top of it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: To conquer a place can also mean to become very popular there: «The band conquered America».↗ Example: The Romans conquered most of Britain.↗ · William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings.↗ · Maya finally conquered her fear of the dark.↗ · They conquered the mountain in three days.↗ · The Spanish conquered the Aztec Empire.↗ · Divide and conquer: break the big problem into small steps.↗ · Her song conquered the charts all over the world.↗ · How did you manage to conquer it?"↗

conquering — Everyday, meaning 1: Taking control of a country or people by force, especially in war.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Succeeding in beating or overcoming a difficult problem or fear (conquering a fear of heights).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Climbing a difficult mountain to the top.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (adjective) Having won, victorious (the conquering hero).↗ Example: The Romans were conquering lands all around the Mediterranean.↗ · William the Conqueror led the Normans in conquering England in 1066.↗ · She is conquering her fear of the dark.↗ · The climbers celebrated conquering the mountain.↗ · The crowds cheered the conquering hero.↗ · Conquering a hard maths problem feels great.↗ · His prowess in war was marvelous, and he succeeded after some time in conquering the Eastern Barbarians, the Ainu.↗

conqueror — Everyday, meaning 1: A person, army or country that takes control of a land or people by force, or wins a war.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Someone who overcomes a difficulty: «the conqueror of Everest».↗ Example: William the Conqueror won the Battle of Hastings.↗ · The conquerors forced the people to pay taxes.↗ · Alexander the Great was a famous conqueror.↗ · Hillary and Tenzing were the first conquerors of Everest.↗ · For the people who were conquered, the conqueror was an invader.↗ · «We are more than conquerors,» says the Bible.↗ · Thereupon the demon dies, and the two ladies greet the conqueror rapturously.↗ · Three Fathers and their generations, Seven conquerors and their armies, and Twelve bounds of the Universe.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

conquest — Everyday, meaning 1: Conquest is taking control of a country, city or people by force, usually in a war.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A conquest is a place or land that has been taken this way.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Conquest can mean beating a very hard challenge, like the conquest of a mountain or of a disease.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (informal, old-fashioned) A conquest can be a person someone has won the love of, said in a boastful way.↗ Example: The Norman Conquest changed the English language for ever.↗ · The Romans began their conquest of Britain with a large army.↗ · Spain's conquest of the Aztec Empire brought terrible suffering.↗ · Climbing Everest was the greatest conquest of his life.↗ · The conquest of smallpox is one of medicine's big wins.↗ · The king boasted about his new conquest.↗ · The conquest of space started with tiny satellites.↗ · Many people died during the conquest.↗ · They are possibly a relic of the days of Aryan conquest, when the fair-skinned, fair-haired Aryan conquered the swarthier aboriginals.↗

conquistador — Everyday, meaning 1: A Spanish (or Portuguese) soldier and explorer who invaded and conquered lands in the Americas after Columbus, such as Hernán Cortés (who conquered the Aztec Empire) and Francisco Pizarro (the Inca Empire).↗ Example: The conquistador Hernán Cortés reached the Aztec capital.↗ · Conquistadors searched for gold in South America.↗ · Diseases brought by the conquistadors killed many Native people.↗ · Pizarro was the conquistador who conquered the Incas.↗ · The conquistadors wore metal helmets and armour.↗ · The museum shows the Aztec side of the story, not only the conquistadors'.↗

conscience — Everyday, meaning 1: The feeling or inner voice inside you that tells you what is right and wrong, and makes you feel bad when you do wrong.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (church, ethics) Christians and many others believe the conscience helps us know God's law; they examine their conscience before confession.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: «In all conscience» (formal) means «honestly, fairly».↗ Example: My conscience told me to give the money back.↗ · He had a guilty conscience after lying to his mum.↗ · She went to bed with a clear conscience.↗ · Jiminy Cricket was Pinocchio's conscience.↗ · Before confession, Catholics examine their conscience.↗ · His conscience was bothering him, so he said sorry.↗ · I couldn't, in all conscience, take the last cake.↗ · ‘You must really have another little sin on your conscience.↗

conscientious — Everyday, meaning 1: Careful to do your work well and thoroughly, because you want to do the right thing.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Guided by what you believe is right and wrong, as in a «conscientious objector», a person who refuses to fight in a war because they believe it is wrong.↗ Example: Maya is a conscientious pupil who always checks her sums twice.↗ · The teacher wrote «conscientious and hard-working» on my report.↗ · Be conscientious about washing your hands before you cook.↗ · He was a conscientious objector and refused to carry a gun in the war.↗ · A conscientious dog owner always picks up after the dog.↗ · Our conscientious librarian puts every book back in the right place.↗ · She conscientiously recorded the temperature every hour for her science project.↗

conscious — Everyday, meaning 1: If you are conscious, you are awake and know what is happening around you.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: If you are conscious of something, you know about it or notice it.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A conscious decision or effort is done on purpose.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (as part of a word) Conscious can mean caring about something, like «health-conscious».↗ Example: After she fainted, she was conscious again in a minute.↗ · In first aid, check whether the person is conscious.↗ · I was conscious of everyone looking at me.↗ · He made a conscious effort to be kind.↗ · Dad is very health-conscious and eats lots of salad.↗ · She felt self-conscious about her new glasses.↗ · When the Queen awakes, she becomes conscious of the theft and pursues the Prince.↗

consciously — Everyday, meaning 1: On purpose and knowing what you are doing: «She consciously chose to be kind».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: While being aware of something: «I wasn't consciously listening».↗ Example: I consciously slowed my breathing to calm down.↗ · She consciously chose healthy snacks.↗ · You don't consciously think about blinking.↗ · He consciously tried to listen more.↗ · We made a consciously quiet entrance.↗ · I wasn't consciously aware of the time.↗

consciousness — Everyday, meaning 1: The state of being awake and aware of what is around you (lose consciousness).↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Being aware of something or caring about it (environmental consciousness).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Your mind; your thoughts and feelings (it entered her consciousness).↗ Example: He lost consciousness after hitting his head.↗ · She regained consciousness in the ambulance.↗ · If someone loses consciousness, call an ambulance.↗ · There is a growing consciousness about plastic waste.↗ · Scientists study how the brain creates consciousness.↗ · The memory slowly came back into his consciousness.↗ · Then I lost consciousness for several minutes.↗

conscript — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) A person who is made by law to join the army or armed forces.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (verb) To make someone join the armed forces by law.↗ Example: My great-grandad was conscripted in 1940.↗ · Conscripts trained for only a few weeks.↗ · Some countries still conscript young men.↗ · Conscription was introduced in Britain in 1916.↗ · He didn't volunteer; he was a conscript.↗

consecrate — Everyday, meaning 1: To consecrate something is to make it holy by a religious ceremony.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) To consecrate a thing or a person is to give it wholly to a purpose.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: To make something holy, or set it apart for God, often by a ceremony.↗ Example: The bishop will consecrate the new church.↗ · She consecrated her life to helping the sick.↗ · Their bond of friendship was consecrated by a ceremony.↗ · The king consecrated the bridge with a prayer.↗ · And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded thee; seven days shalt thou consecrate them.↗ (Torah EXO.29.35, JPS 1917)↗ · And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.↗ (Torah EXO.29.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And ye shall not go out from the door of the tent of meeting seven days, until the days of your consecration be fulfilled; for He shall consecrate you seven days.↗ (Torah LEV.8.33, JPS 1917)↗ · Who then offereth willingly to consecrate himself this day unto the LORD?'↗ (Writings 1CH.29.5, JPS 1917)↗ · Seven days shall they make atonement for the altar and cleanse it; so shall they consecrate it.↗ (Prophets EZK.43.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And thus shalt thou do unto Aaron, and to his sons, according to all that I have commanded thee; seven days shalt thou consecrate them.↗ (Torah EXO.29.35, JPS 1917) · Your sister Anastasia is the most beautiful and most innocent of maidens, and she shall consecrate the deed.↗ (Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen) · And they shall eat those things wherewith atonement was made, to consecrate and to sanctify them; but a stranger shall not eat thereof, because they are holy.↗ (Torah EXO.29.33, JPS 1917)

consecrated — Everyday, meaning 1: Consecrated means made holy by a blessing or religious ceremony.↗ Example: The graves were in consecrated ground.↗ · The old church is consecrated.↗ · The woodland felt like a consecrated place.↗ · Only consecrated ground could hold the dead.↗ · These are the names of the sons of Aaron, the priests that were anointed, whom he consecrated to minister in the priest's office.↗ (Torah NUM.3.3, JPS 1917)↗ · And the holy garments of Aaron shall be for his sons after him, to be anointed in them, and to be consecrated in them.↗ (Torah EXO.29.29, JPS 1917)↗ · And the priest, who shall be anointed and who shall be consecrated to be priest in his father's stead, shall make the atonement, and shall put on the linen garments, even the holy garments.↗ (Torah LEV.16.32, JPS 1917)↗ · And the consecrated things were six hundred oxen and three thousand sheep.↗ (Writings 2CH.29.33, JPS 1917)↗ · And Micah consecrated the Levite, and the young man became his priest, and was in the house of Micah.↗ (Prophets JDG.17.12, JPS 1917)↗ · I have commanded My consecrated ones, yea, I have called My mighty ones for mine anger, even My proudly exulting ones.↗ (Prophets ISA.13.3, JPS 1917)↗

consecration — Everyday, meaning 1: Consecration is the act of making something holy by a religious ceremony.↗ Example: The bishop led the consecration of the new church.↗ · The bread was ordinary until its consecration.↗ · The ceremony of consecration took place at dawn.↗ · And thou shalt take the ram of consecration, and seethe its flesh in a holy place.↗ (Torah EXO.29.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And the other ram was presented, the ram of consecration, and Aaron and his sons laid their hands upon the head of the ram.↗ (Torah LEV.8.22, JPS 1917)↗ · And thou shalt take the breast of Aaron's ram of consecration, and wave it for a wave-offering before the LORD; and it shall be thy portion.↗ (Torah EXO.29.26, JPS 1917)↗

consecutive — Everyday, meaning 1: Consecutive means following one after another in order, without a gap.↗ Example: 5, 6 and 7 are consecutive numbers.↗ · It rained for five consecutive days.↗ · Our team won four consecutive matches.↗ · Three consecutive numbers add up to 15: they are 4, 5 and 6.↗ · 10, 12 and 14 are consecutive even numbers.↗ · She came first for the third consecutive time.↗ · Two consecutive numbers always have one odd and one even.↗

consecutively — Everyday, meaning 1: Consecutively means one after another, in order, without a gap or break.↗ Example: The pages are numbered consecutively.↗ · She won the race three years consecutively.↗ · The seats are numbered consecutively from 1 to 30.↗ · It rained on five days consecutively.↗ · The tickets were sold consecutively, so the numbers had no gaps.↗ · Write the even numbers consecutively from 2 to 20.↗ · The two films were shown consecutively.↗ · He scored in four matches consecutively.↗

consensus — Everyday, meaning 1: Agreement among all or most people in a group.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (science) The general view of most experts after studying the evidence (the scientific consensus).↗ Example: The class reached a consensus to visit the zoo.↗ · There is a strong scientific consensus about climate change.↗ · After a long chat, the family came to a consensus on pizza.↗ · The council could not reach a consensus.↗ · A consensus does not always mean everyone agrees completely.↗ · The general consensus was that the play was brilliant.↗