contraception

English

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Noun

contraception (usually uncountable, plural contraceptions)

1. The use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity.

Hyponyms

• vasectomy, tube tying, condoms, birth-control pill/the pill, v-ring, contraceptive patch, contraceptive implant, IUD, diaphragm, withdrawal

Derived terms

• anticontraception
• contracept
• contraceptional
• contraceptionism
• contraceptionist
• immunocontraception

Related terms

• contraceptive

Translations

use of a device or procedure

Bulgarian: предпазване (bg) n (predpazvane) (от забременяване) Catalan: contracepció (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 避孕 (zh) (bìyùn) Czech: antikoncepce (cs) f Danish: prævention (da) c Dutch: anticonceptie (nl) f Esperanto: kontraŭkoncipo Estonian: rasestuse vältimine Faroese: fyribyrging f Finnish: ehkäisy (fi), syntyvyyden säännöstely French: contraception (fr) f German: Empfängnisverhütung (de) f, Kontrazeption f, Verhütung (de) f Greek: αντισύλληψη (el) f (antisýllipsi) Hungarian: fogamzásgátlás (hu) Indonesian: kontrasepsi (id) Italian: contraccezione (it) f Japanese: 避妊 (ja) (ひにん, hinin) Kazakh: контрацепция (kontrasepsiä) Kyrgyz: контрацепция (kontratseptsiya) Latin: contraconceptio f Norman: contraception f Norwegian: Bokmål: prevensjon m Nynorsk: prevensjon m Polish: antykoncepcja (pl) f Portuguese: contraceção f Russian: контраце́пция (ru) f (kontracépcija) Scottish Gaelic: casg-gin m, casg-gineamhainn m Spanish: anticoncepción (es) f, contraconcepción f, contracepción f, anticoncepcionismo f Tagalog: labanlihi, agaw-lihi Urdu: امتناعِ حمل (imtinā-e-hamal), ضبطِ تولید (zabt-e-taulīd)

French

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contraception

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• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁa.sɛp.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

contraception f (plural contraceptions)

1. contraception

Further reading

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

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Noun

contraception f (plural contraceptions)

1. (Jersey) contraception

Related terms

• contraceptif (“contraceptive”)