Other forms: evacuations
Evacuation is moving people away from danger. The evacuation of the building, a mass evacuation, evacuation routes.
In British history, the Evacuation means the movement of around three million people, mostly children, out of cities in 1939 to escape bombing, and evacuee is the word for one of them. In emergencies generally, evacuation plans and evacuation routes are the standard preparation. Note evacuate; and that in medicine evacuation has a bodily sense, which is why the word is chosen carefully in some contexts.
1nounevacuationMoving people away from danger.
“The evacuation of the whole street took about twenty minutes.”
evacuation is a moving to safety.
Latin evacuatio comes from evacuare — ex-, out, plus vacuus, empty. An evacuation is an emptying out, and vacuum, vacant and vacation are all the same emptiness.
Latin
ēvacuātiō
Old French
evacuation
Middle English
evacuacioun
English, today
evacuation
From Middle English evacuacioun, from Old French evacuation, from Latin ēvacuātiō. Equivalent to evacuate + -ion.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA