incursion
See also: incursión
English
Etymology
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French, from Latin incursiō, incursiōnem.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪŋˈkɜː(ɹ)ʒən/, /ɪŋˈkɜː(ɹ)ʃən/
- Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʒən, -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən
Audio (Southern England) (file)
Noun
incursion (plural incursions)
- An aggressive movement into somewhere; an invasion.
- 1947 January and February, H. A. Vallance, “The Sea Wall at Dawlish”, in Railway Magazine, page 18:
- Fascinating though the journey is to the traveller, for many years this section of the line was a source of considerable anxiety to the maintenance engineers, and on more than one occasion landslips and incursions of the sea resulted in the railway being closed for several days.
Translations
aggressive movement
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References
- “incursion”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Anagrams
French
Etymology
Inherited from Old French, from Latin incursiōnem.
Pronunciation
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Related terms
Further reading
- “incursion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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