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See also: Invasion and invasión

English

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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.
    • 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, archived from the original on 07 July 2022:
      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.
  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, 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, volume 13, →DOI:
      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.

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French

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin invāsiōnem, nominative of invāsiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

  1. invasion
    armée d'invasioninvasion army
    troupes d'invasioninvasion troops

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Middle French

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

  1. invasion

Occitan

Etymology

From Latin invāsiō.

Pronunciation

Noun

invasion f (plural invasions)

  1. invasion

Swedish

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin invāsiō.

Noun

invasion c

  1. invasion

Declension

More information nominative, genitive ...

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