incursion

See also: incursión

English

Etymology

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French, from Latin incursiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪŋˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/, /ɪŋˈkɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən, -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

Noun

incursion (plural incursions)

1. A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of destruction, plunder, or bodily harm rather than an intent to conquer territory or alter the established government; contrast invasion in its narrow sense.
2. An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion in the general sense.
   • 1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:

     Fascinating though the journey is to the traveller, for many years this section of the line was a source of considerable anxiety to the maintenance engineers, and on more than one occasion landslips and incursions of the sea resulted in the railway being closed for several days.

3. (Australia) A function hosted within an educational institution, especially by or for students, for recreation, research, education or a display of works.

Synonyms

• attack
• movement

Antonyms

• attack
• movement
• (function): excursion

Derived terms

• incursionary
• reincursion

Related terms

• incur
• incursive
• predatory incursion

Translations

aggressive movement

• Arabic: توغل
• Armenian: ասպատակություն (hy) (aspatakutʻyun), արշավանք (hy) (aršavankʻ), ներխուժում (hy) (nerxužum), հարձակում (hy) (harjakum)
• Bulgarian: нашествие (bg) n (našestvie), нахлуване (bg) n (nahluvane), набег (bg) m (nabeg)
• Czech: vpád m, vtrhnutí n
• Danish: indtrængen
• Finnish: tunkeutuminen (fi)
• French: incursion (fr) f, invasion (fr) f
• German: Einfall (de) m, Eindringen (de) n
• Greek:

  Ancient: εἰσβολή f (eisbolḗ)

• Hindi: घुसपैठ (hi) f (ghuspaiṭh)
• Korean: 침입 (ko) (chimip)
• Latin: incursiō f
• Macedonian: у́пад m (úpad)
• Russian: вторже́ние (ru) n (vtoržénije), наше́ствие (ru) n (našéstvije), набе́г (ru) m (nabég)
• Spanish: incursión (es) f
• Ukrainian: вто́ргнення n (vtórhnennja), набіг m (nabih), наліт m (nalit), напад m (napad)

References

• “incursion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.

Anagrams

• cornusiin

French

Etymology

Inherited from Old French, from Latin incursiōnem.

Pronunciation

• Audio (France (Lyon)):

  (file)

Noun

incursion f (plural incursions)

1. incursion
2. foray
3. excursion

Related terms

• encourir

Further reading

• “incursion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.