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 (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

• Arabic: غَزْو‎ m (ḡazw), إِغَارَة‎ f (ʾiḡāra), اِنْتِهَاك‎ m (intihāk)
• Armenian: ներխուժում (hy) (nerxužum), արշավանք (aršavankʿ)
• Asturian: invasión f
• Basque: inbasio
• 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
• Faroese: hertøka f
• Finnish: invaasio (fi), tunkeutuminen (fi)
• French: invasion (fr)
• Galician: invasión f
• Georgian: შემოსევა (šemoseva), შემოჭრა (šemoč̣ra)
• German: Invasion (de) f, Überfall (de) m
• Greek: εισβολή (el) (eisvolí)
• Hindi: आक्रमण (hi) (ākramaṇ)
• Hungarian: invázió (hu)
• Indonesian: invasi (id), serbuan (id)
• Italian: invasione, calata (it) f
• Japanese: 侵略 (ja) (しんりゃく, shinryaku), 侵攻 (しんこう, shinkō)
• Korean: 침입 (chimip), 침공 (chimgong)

• Kurdish:

  Sorani: داگیرکردن‎

• Latvian: invāzija f
• Luxembourgish: Amarsch (lb) m
• Malay: invasi
• Maori: whakaekenga
• Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: invasjon m

  Nynorsk: invasjon m

• Old English: infaru f
• Persian: تهاجم‎ (fa) (tahâjom)
• Portuguese: invasão (pt) f
• Russian: вторже́ние (ru) n (vtoržénije), наше́ствие (ru) n (našéstvije),
• Slovene: invazija (sl) f
• Spanish: invasión (es) f
• Swedish: invasion (sv) c
• Telugu: ఆక్రమణ (te) (ākramaṇa)
• Thai: การบุกรุก (gaan-bù-grùk)
• Turkish: saldırı (tr)
• Ukrainian: вто́ргнення n (vtórhnennja)
• 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

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Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

See also

• envahir

Anagrams

• innovais, visionna

Further reading

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

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Middle French

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

1. invasion

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Swedish

Noun

invasion c

1. invasion