invasion

See also: Invasion and invasión

English

Etymology

From Middle French invasion, from Late Latin invāsiōnem, accusative of invāsiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈveɪʒən/
• Rhymes: -eɪʒən

Noun

invasion (countable and uncountable, plural invasions)

1. A military action consisting of armed forces of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
2. The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.

   an invasion of mobile phones

   an invasion of bees

   an invasion of foreign tourists

3. (medicine) The spread of cancer cells, bacteries and such to the organism.
4. (surgery) The breaching of the skin barrier.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• British Invasion
• invasion of privacy

• invasion stripes
• pitch invasion

Related terms

Related terms

• intervasion
• intrusion
• invade

• invader
• trespass

Translations

military action

• Albanian: please add this translation if you can
• Arabic: غَزْو‎‎ m (ḡazw), إِغَارَة‎‎ f (ʾiḡāra), اِنْتِهَاك‎‎ m (intihāk), تُجَاوُزْ‎‎ m (tujāwuz)
• Armenian: ներխուժում (hy) (nerxužum), արշավանք (hy) (aršavankʿ)
• Asturian: invasión f
• Azerbaijani: işğal (az), təcavüz (az)
• Basque: inbasio
• Belarusian: уварва́нне n (uvarvánnje)
• Bulgarian: инва́зия f (invázija), наше́ствие (bg) n (našéstvie)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: invasió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 侵占 (zh) (qīnzhàn), 佔領 (zh), 占领 (zh) (zhànlǐng), 侵略 (zh) (qīnlüè), 入侵 (zh) (rùqīn), 侵入 (zh) (qīnrù)

• Czech: invaze (cs) f, vpád m
• Danish: invasion c
• Esperanto: invado
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Faroese: hertøka f
• Finnish: invaasio (fi), maahantunkeutuminen (fi)
• French: invasion (fr)
• Galician: invasión f
• Georgian: შემოსევა (šemoseva), შემოჭრა (šemoč̣ra)
• German: Invasion (de) f, Überfall (de) m
• Greek: εισβολή (el) (eisvolí)
• Hebrew: please add this translation if you can
• Hindi: आक्रमण (hi) m (ākramaṇ)
• Hungarian: invázió (hu)
• Icelandic: please add this translation if you can
• Indonesian: invasi (id), serbuan (id)
• Italian: invasione (it), calata (it) f
• Japanese: 侵略 (ja) (しんりゃく, shinryaku), 侵攻 (ja) (しんこう, shinkō), 侵入 (ja) (しんにゅう, shinnyū)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: 침입 (chimip), 침공 (chimgong), 침략 (ko) (chimnyak)
• Kurdish:

  Sorani: داگیرکردن‎‎ (dagîrkirdin)

• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latvian: invāzija f

• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Luxembourgish: Amarsch (lb) m
• Malay: invasi
• Malayalam: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: whakaekenga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Nepali: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: invasjon m

  Nynorsk: invasjon m

• Old English: infaru f
• Persian: تهاجم‎‎ (fa) (tahâjom), تجاوز‎‎ (fa) (tajâvoz)
• Portuguese: invasão (pt) f
• Punjabi: please add this translation if you can
• Romanian: invazie (ro) f
• Russian: вторже́ние (ru) n (vtoržénije), наше́ствие (ru) n (našéstvije),
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: инвазија f

  Roman: invazija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: please add this translation if you can
• Slovak: invázia f, vpád m
• Slovene: invazija (sl) f
• Spanish: invasión (es) f
• Swedish: invasion (sv) c
• Tajik: таҳоҷум (tahojum), таҷовуз (tajovuz)
• Tamil: please add this translation if you can
• Telugu: ఆక్రమణ (te) (ākramaṇa)
• Thai: การบุกรุก (gaan-bùk-rúk), การรุกราน (th) (gaan-rúk-raan)
• Tibetan: བཙན་འཛུལ (btsan 'dzul)
• Turkish: saldırı (tr), işgal (tr), tecâvüz (tr)
• Ukrainian: вто́ргнення n (vtórhnennja)
• Uyghur: please add this translation if you can
• Uzbek: tajovuz (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự xâm lược (vi), sự xâm chiếm (vi)
• Welsh: goresgyniad m

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin invāsiōnem, nominative of invāsiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.va.zjɔ̃/

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Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

See also

• envahir

Further reading

• “invasion” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• innovais, visionna

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Middle French

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

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Swedish

Noun

invasion c

1. invasion