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annexation

noun · 4 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

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1

noun

Meaning 1

Addition or incorporation of something, or territories that have been annexed.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

A legal merging of a territory into another body.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

Topics: law

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

the formal act of acquiring something (especially territory) by conquest or occupation

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • the French annexation of Madagascar as a colony in 1896
  • a protectorate has frequently been a first step to annexation

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: acquisition

4

noun

Meaning 4

incorporation by joining or uniting

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: appropriation

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: incorporation

History

Etymology

From Medieval Latin annexation-, stem of annexatio (“action of annexing”), from past participle of annecto.

Across languages

Translations

81 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: aneksim — addition or incorporation of something
  • Arabic: ضَمّ (ḍamm) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Arabic: إِلْحَاق (ʔilḥāq) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Armenian: անեքսիա (anekʻsia) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Armenian: բռնակցում (bṙnakcʻum) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Azerbaijani: anneksiya — addition or incorporation of something
  • Azerbaijani: ilhaq — addition or incorporation of something
  • Belarusian: анэ́ксія (anéksija) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Belarusian: аншлю́с (anšljús) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Belarusian: а́ншлюс (ánšljus) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Bulgarian: ане́ксия (anéksija) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Catalan: annexió — addition or incorporation of something
  • Chinese Mandarin: 併吞 /并吞 (bìngtūn) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Chinese Mandarin: 合併 /合并 (hébìng) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Czech: anexe — addition or incorporation of something
  • Danish: anneksion — addition or incorporation of something
  • Danish: annektering — addition or incorporation of something
  • Dutch: annexatie — addition or incorporation of something
  • Esperanto: anekso — addition or incorporation of something
  • Estonian: anneksioon — addition or incorporation of something
  • Finnish: liittäminen — addition or incorporation of something
  • French: annexion — addition or incorporation of something
  • Georgian: ანექსია (aneksia) — addition or incorporation of something
  • German: Annexion — addition or incorporation of something
  • German: Anschluss — addition or incorporation of something
  • Greek: προσάρτηση (prosártisi) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Greek: προσθήκη (prosthíki) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Hebrew: סיפוח — addition or incorporation of something
  • Hebrew: סִפּוּחַ (sipúakh) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Hindi: अधिग्रहण (adhigrahaṇ) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Hungarian: hozzácsatolás — addition or incorporation of something
  • Hungarian: annexió — addition or incorporation of something
  • Hungarian: annektálás — addition or incorporation of something
  • Italian: annessione — addition or incorporation of something
  • Japanese: 編入 (hennyū) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Japanese: 併合 (heigō) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Japanese: 付加 (fuka) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Kazakh: аннексия (anneksiä) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Korean: 병합 (byeonghap) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Korean: 합병 (hapbyeong) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Kyrgyz: аннексия (anneksiya) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Latvian: aneksija — addition or incorporation of something
  • Lithuanian: aneksija — addition or incorporation of something
  • Macedonian: анексија (aneksija) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Norwegian Bokmål: anneksjon — addition or incorporation of something
  • Norwegian Bokmål: annektering — addition or incorporation of something
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: anneksjon — addition or incorporation of something
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: annektering — addition or incorporation of something
  • Persian: الحاق (elhâq) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Polish: aneksja — addition or incorporation of something
  • Polish: zabór — addition or incorporation of something
  • Portuguese: anexação — addition or incorporation of something
  • Romanian: anexare — addition or incorporation of something
  • Russian: анне́ксия (annɛ́ksija) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Russian: присоедине́ние (prisojedinénije) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Russian: аншлю́с (anšljús) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Russian: а́ншлюс (ánšljus) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Serbo-Croatian: анѐксија — addition or incorporation of something
  • Serbo-Croatian: анексирање — addition or incorporation of something
  • Serbo-Croatian: anèksija — addition or incorporation of something
  • Serbo-Croatian: aneksiranje — addition or incorporation of something
  • Slovak: anexia — addition or incorporation of something
  • Slovene: aneksija — addition or incorporation of something
  • Spanish: anexión — addition or incorporation of something
  • Swedish: annektering — addition or incorporation of something
  • Swedish: annexion — addition or incorporation of something
  • Tajik: илҳоқ (ilhoq) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Tajik: аннексия (anneksiya) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Turkish: ilhak — addition or incorporation of something
  • Turkmen: anneksiýa — addition or incorporation of something
  • Ukrainian: ане́ксія (anéksija) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Ukrainian: приє́днання (pryjédnannja) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Ukrainian: аншлю́с (anšljús) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Ukrainian: а́ншлюс (ánšljus) — addition or incorporation of something
  • Uzbek: anneksiya — addition or incorporation of something
  • Vietnamese: sự phụ vào — addition or incorporation of something
  • Danish: anneksion — legal merging of territory
  • Esperanto: anekso — legal merging of territory
  • Finnish: liittäminen — legal merging of territory
  • German: Annexion — legal merging of territory
  • Turkish: ilhak — legal merging of territory
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