invasion

UK/ɪnˈveɪʒən/US/ɪnˈveɪʒən/

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Other forms: invasions

An invasion is the entering of a country by an armed force. A full-scale invasion, repel the invasion, the invasion began.

It is unlawful under the United Nations Charter except in self-defence or with Security Council authority, which is why states at war argue so hard about which they are doing. The word also covers an invasion of privacy and of invasive species. The Latin means a going in.

Definitions of invasion

1nouninvasionThe entering of a country by an armed force.B2
“The invasion began at dawn, with tanks crossing the border.”

invasion is an attack.

Where it comes from

Latin invasio comes from invadere, to go in — in plus vadere, to go.

Proto-Indo-European
*weh₂dʰ-
Latin
invāsiōnem
Middle French
invasion
English, today
invasion

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

Practise this word

invasion in the wild

In the two years leading up to the invasion, Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union signed political and economic pacts for strategic purposes.
Operation Barbarossa
The invasion began on 22 June 1941 with a massive ground and air assault.
Operation Barbarossa
Three days later on 28 September, William's invasion force of thousands of men and hundreds of ships landed at Pevensey in Sussex in southern England.
Norman Conquest
On October 28, 1983, three days after the invasion, the U.N.
United States invasion of Grenada
As the invasion force lost the strategic initiative, the international community found out about the invasion, and U.S. president John F.
Bay of Pigs Invasion

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