eruption

See also: Eruption and éruption

English

Etymology

From Middle French éruption, from Latin eruptio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪˈɹʌpʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -ʌpʃən

Noun

eruption (countable and uncountable, plural eruptions)

1. A violent ejection, such as the spurting out of lava from a volcano.

   a volcanic eruption

2. A sudden release of pressure or tension.

   There was an eruption of joy at the final whistle.

3. An utterance, especially a sudden one; an ejaculation.
   • 1976 December 18, Rudy Kikel, “The Doomsday Book by the Jewish Comedian”, in Gay Community News, volume 4, number 25, page 15:

     Ultimately, Greenfield may remind us of no one so much as Boston's own, Sylvia Sidney — "herself" in the amusement business! From whom else does one expect so leveling a sequence of eruptions: "i mean yah gotta win a little money/ i mean we're all whores turning a trick"?

5. An infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing.

Hyponyms

• bozo eruption
• creeping eruption
• effusive eruption
• explosive eruption
• fissure eruption
• flank eruption
• Hawaiian eruption
• lateral eruption
• limnic eruption
• Peléan eruption
• phreatic eruption
• Plinian eruption
• steam-blast eruption
• Strombolian eruption
• subaerial eruption
• subglacial eruption
• submarine eruption
• subplinian eruption
• supereruption
• Surtseyan eruption
• ultraplinian eruption
• ultravulcanian eruption
• Vesuvian eruption
• Vulcanian eruption

Derived terms

• bimbo eruption
• eruptional
• eruption column
• maleruption
• noneruption
• overeruption
• posteruption

Translations

violent ejection, such as that of lava from a volcano

Armenian: ժայթքում (hy) (žaytʻkʻum) Asturian: erupción (ast) f Azerbaijani: püskürmə Belarusian: вывяржэ́нне n (vyvjaržénnje) Bikol Central: pagtuga Bulgarian: изригване n (izrigvane) Catalan: erupció (ca) f Chinese: Mandarin: 噴發 / 喷发 (zh) (pēnfā), 爆發 / 爆发 (zh) (bàofā), 噴出 / 喷出 (zh) (pēnchū) Dutch: uitbarsting (nl) f Esperanto: erupcio Faroese: gos n Finnish: purkaus (fi) French: éruption (fr) f Galician: erupción (gl) f Georgian: ამოფრქვევა (amoprkveva) German: Eruption (de) f, Ausbruch (de) m, Vulkanausbruch (de) m Greek: έκρηξη (el) (ékrixi) Ancient: ἀναχοή (anakhoḗ) Hindi: भभका (hi) m (bhabhkā) Hungarian: kitörés (hu) Icelandic: gos (is) n Indonesian: erupsi (id) Irish: brúchtadh m Italian: eruzione (it) f Japanese: 噴火 (ja) (ふんか, funka), 噴出 (ja) (ふんしゅつ, funshutsu) Kapampangan: akbung Korean: 분화 (ko) (bunhwa), 분출 (ko) (bunchul) Latin: eruptio f Malay: letusan Maori: hūnga Occitan: erupcion (oc) f Persian: فوران (fa) (favarân) Polish: erupcja (pl) f Portuguese: erupção (pt) f Romanian: erupere (ro) f, erupție (ro) f Russian: изверже́ние (ru) n (izveržénije) Scottish Gaelic: maoim f Serbo-Croatian: erupcija (sh) f, ерупција f Spanish: erupción (es) f Swedish: utbrott (sv) n, vulkanutbrott (sv) n, eruption (sv) c Tetum: erupsaun Tongan: laku Turkish: patlama (tr) Ukrainian: ви́верження n (výveržennja), ви́бух m (výbux) Welsh: echdoriad m

sudden release of pressure or tension

Armenian: ժայթքում (hy) (žaytʻkʻum) Bulgarian: изблик (bg) m (izblik) Dutch: uitbarsting (nl) f Finnish: purkaus (fi) German: Ausbruch (de) m Polish: erupcja (pl) f Russian: взрыв (ru) m (vzryv)

infection of the skin resulting in a rash or blemishing

Asturian: erupción (ast) f Bulgarian: обрив (bg) m (obriv) Catalan: erupció (ca) f Dutch: huiduitslag (nl) m Finnish: tulehdus (fi) Galician: erupción (gl) f Indonesian: erupsi (id) Occitan: erupcion (oc) f Romanian: erupție (ro) f Russian: сыпь (ru) f (sypʹ)

Interlingua

Noun

eruption (plural eruptiones)

1. eruption, outbreak