invasion

See also: Invasion and invasión

English

Etymology

From Middle French invasion, from Late Latin invāsiōnem, accusative of invāsiō. Displaced native Old English infaru, literally "in+fare".

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈveɪʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʒən

Noun

invasion (countable and uncountable, plural invasions)

1. A military action consisting of a large armed force of one geopolitical entity entering territory controlled by another such entity, generally with the objective of conquering territory or altering the established government.
   • 1978 [1976], Leszek Kołakowski, translated by P[aul] S[teven] Falla, Main Currents of Marxism, volume II: The Golden Age, Oxford: Clarendon Press, translation of Główne nurty marksizmu: rozwój (in Polish), →ISBN, →OCLC, page 402:

     The invasion and armed suppression, on one occasion after another, of nations seeking to be free was quite consistent with Lenin's views.

   • 2003, Lawrence Murray, The Kassandra Complex:

     Since Michel's days, however, many barbarian invasions had subdivided the Three Gauls into a melange of warsome states and tribes, all, nevertheless, acquiring a vaguely similar grace, if not a petite grandeur.

   • 2022 July 7, “Inspired by Ukraine, civilians study urban warfare in Taiwan”, in France 24‎^[1], archived from the original on 07 July 2022‎^[2]:

     Yeh actually works in marketing, and his weapon is a replica -- but he is spending the weekend attending an urban warfare workshop to prepare for what he sees as the very real threat of a Chinese invasion.

   • 2025 April 28, Helen Regan, Michael Rios, Darya Tarasova, Tim Lister, “Putin thanks North Korea for help in Kursk, as Germany criticizes US plan for Ukrainian concessions”, in CNN‎^[3], archived from the original on 14 August 2025:

     North Korea had not publicly confirmed its contribution until Monday, when it said: “The operations for liberating the Kursk area to repel the adventurous invasion of the Russian Federation by the Ukrainian authorities were victoriously concluded,” according to state-run news agency KCNA.

2. The entry without consent of an individual or group into an area where they are not wanted.

   Synonym: descent

   an invasion of mobile phones

   an invasion of bees

   an invasion of foreign tourists

3. (medicine) The spread of cancer cells, bacteria and such to the organism.
   • 2015 September 8, Filomena Cetani et al., “A nonfunctioning parathyroid carcinoma misdiagnosed as a follicular thyroid nodule”, in World Journal of Surgical Oncology‎^[4], volume 13, →DOI, archived from the original on 23 March 2025:

     The histological diagnosis of PC is currently restricted to lesions showing unequivocal extra-parathyroidal growth, as evidenced by perineural invasion, full thickness capsular invasion with growth into adjacent tissues, extratumoral vascular invasion, or metastasis.

4. (surgery) The breaching of the skin barrier.

Derived terms

• angioinvasion
• bioinvasion
• British Invasion
• chemoinvasion
• coinvasion
• counterinvasion
• cyberinvasion
• cytoinvasion
• home invasion
• invasin
• invasional
• invasionary
• invasion currency
• invasionist
• invasion money
• invasion of privacy
• invasion stripes
• lymphoinvasion
• microinvasion
• neuroinvasion
• pitch invasion
• postinvasion
• preinvasion
• pseudoinvasion
• reinvasion
• vasoinvasion

Related terms

• intervasion
• invade
• invader

Translations

military action

• Afrikaans: invasie
• Albanian: pushtim (sq) m
• Arabic: غَزْو m (ḡazw), إِغَارَة f (ʔiḡāra), اِنْتِهَاك m (intihāk), تَجَاوُز m (tajāwuz), تَهَاجُم m (tahājum)
• Armenian: ներխուժում (hy) (nerxužum), արշավանք (hy) (aršavankʻ)
• Asturian: invasión f
• Azerbaijani: işğal (az), təcavüz (az), müdaxilə (az)
• Basque: inbasio inan
• Belarusian: уварва́нне n (uvarvánnje), інва́зія f (invázija)
• Bengali: আক্রমণ (bn) (akromon)
• Bulgarian: инва́зия f (invázija), наше́ствие (bg) n (našéstvie), агре́сия (bg) f (agrésija)
• Burmese: ဝင်ရောက်စွက်ဖက်မှု (wang-raukcwakhpakhmu.), ကျူးကျော် (my) (kyu:kyau)
• Carpathian Rusyn: інва́зія f (invázija)
• Catalan: invasió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 侵占 (cam¹ zim³), 佔領 / 占领 (zim³ ling⁵), 侵略 (cam¹ loek⁶), 入侵 (jap⁶ cam¹), 侵入 (cam¹ jap⁶)

  Mandarin: 侵占 (zh) (qīnzhàn), 佔領 / 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
• Dutch: invasie (nl) f, inval (nl) m
• Esperanto: invado
• Estonian: sissetungi, invasioon
• 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, Einfall (de) m, Einmarsch (de) m
• Greek: εισβολή (el) (eisvolí)

  Ancient Greek: εἰσβολή f (eisbolḗ)

• Hebrew: פְּלִישָׁה (plishá)
• Hindi: आक्रमण (hi) m (ākramaṇ), हमला (hi) m (hamlā), मुदाख़लत f (mudāxalat)
• Hungarian: invázió (hu)
• Icelandic: innrás
• Indonesian: invasi (id), serbuan (id), serangan (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)
• Kazakh: басып кіру (basıp kirüw)
• Khmer: ការលុកលុយ (kaa luk luy), អធិក្រម (km) (ʼaʼthikrɑm)
• Korean: 침입(侵入) (ko) (chimip), 침공(侵攻) (chimgong), 침략(侵略) (ko) (chimnyak)
• Kurdish:

  Central Kurdish: داگیرکردن (dagîrkirdin)

  Northern Kurdish: tecawiz (ku), destdirêjî (ku)

• Kyrgyz: басып кирүү (basıp kirüü)
• Lao: ການບຸກລຸກ (kān buk luk), ການຮົກຮານ (kān hok hān), ການຮຸກຮານ (kān huk hān)
• Latin: incursiō f, (Late) invasiō f
• Latvian: invāzija f
• Lithuanian: invazija f, įsiveržimas m
• Luxembourgish: Amarsch (lb) m, Invasioun f
• Macedonian: инвазија f (invazija), упад m (upad), наезда f (naezda)
• Malay: invasi
• Malayalam: അധിനിവേശം (ml) (adhinivēśaṁ)
• Maltese: invażjoni f
• Māori: whakaekenga
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: халдлага (mn) (xaldlaga), довтолгоон (dovtolgoon), түрэмгийлэл (mn) (türemgiilel)

• Nepali: आक्रमण (ne) (ākramaṇ)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: invasjon m

  Nynorsk: invasjon m

• Occitan: invasion (oc) f
• Old English: infaru f
• Oromo: weerara
• Pashto: تجاوز (ps) m (tajāwoz), تهاجم (ps) m (tahājom)
• Persian:

  Iranian Persian: تَهاجُم (tahâjom), تَجاوُز (tajâvoz), مُداخِلِه (modâxele)

• Polish: inwazja (pl) f, najazd (pl)
• Portuguese: invasão (pt) f
• Punjabi: ਹਮਲਾ (hamlā)
• Romanian: invazie (ro) f
• Russian: вторже́ние (ru) n (vtoržénije), наше́ствие (ru) n (našéstvije),
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ѝнва̄зија f

  Latin: ìnvāzija (sh) f

• Sinhalese: ආක්රමණය කිරීමයි (ākramaṇaya kirīmayi), ආක්රමණය (ākramaṇaya)
• Slovak: invázia f, vpád m
• Slovene: invazija (sl) f
• Spanish: invasión (es) f
• Swedish: invasion (sv) c
• Tajik: таҳоҷум (tahojum), таҷовуз (tajovuz), мудохила (tg) (mudoxila)
• Tamil: படையெடுப்பு (paṭaiyeṭuppu)
• Tatar: һөҗүм (tt) (höcüm), басып керү (basıp kerü), бәреп керү (bärep kerü)
• Telugu: ఆక్రమణ (te) (ākramaṇa)
• Thai: การบุกรุก (th) (gaan-bùk-rúk), การรุกราน (th) (gaan-rúk-raan)
• Tibetan: བཙན་འཛུལ (btsan 'dzul)
• Turkish: saldırı (tr), işgal (tr), tecâvüz (tr), müdahale (tr)
• Turkmen: basgyn, çozuş
• Ukrainian: вто́ргнення n (vtórhnennja), інва́зія (uk) f (invázija)
• Urdu: حَمْلَہ m (hamla), مُداخَلَت f (mudāxalat)
• Uyghur: تاجاۋۇز (tajawuz)
• Uzbek: tajovuz (uz), istilo (uz)
• Vietnamese: sự xâm lược (vi), sự xâm chiếm (vi)
• Welsh: goresgyniad m

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• Tagalog: ^{(please verify)} imbasyon

Danish

Etymology

Via French, from Late Latin invāsiō.

Noun

invasion c (singular definite invasionen, plural indefinite invasioner)

1. invasion

Declension

Declension of invasion

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	invasion	invasionen	invasioner	invasionerne
genitive	invasions	invasionens	invasioners	invasionernes

Related terms

• invadere

See also

• rykind

References

• “invasion” in Den Danske Ordbog

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin invāsiōnem, nominative of invāsiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.va.zjɔ̃/

• Audio:

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Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

   armée d'invasion ― invasion army

   troupes d'invasion ― invasion troops

Related terms

• envahir
• invasif

Further reading

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

Anagrams

• innovais, visionna

Middle French

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin invāsiō.

Pronunciation

• Audio (Béarn):

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Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin invāsiō.

Noun

invasion c

1. invasion

Declension

Declension of invasion

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	invasion	invasions
	definite	invasionen	invasionens
plural	indefinite	invasioner	invasioners
	definite	invasionerna	invasionernas

Related terms

• invadera

References

• “invasion”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “invasion”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “invasion”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)