contraception

English

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Noun

contraception (usually uncountable, plural contraceptions)

1. The use of a device or procedure to prevent conception as a result of sexual activity.

Hyponyms

• vasectomy, tube tying, condoms, birth-control pill/the pill, v-ring, contraceptive patch, contraceptive implant, IUD, diaphragm, withdrawal

Derived terms

• anticontraception
• contracept
• contraceptional
• contraceptionism
• contraceptionist
• immunocontraception

 

Related terms

• contraceptive

Translations

use of a device or procedure

• Bulgarian: предпазване (bg) n (predpazvane) (от забременяване)
• Catalan: contracepció (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 避孕 (zh) (bìyùn)

• Czech: antikoncepce (cs) f
• Danish: prævention (da) c
• Dutch: anticonceptie (nl) f
• Esperanto: kontraŭkoncipo
• Estonian: rasestuse vältimine
• Faroese: fyribyrging f
• Finnish: ehkäisy (fi), syntyvyyden säännöstely
• French: contraception (fr) f
• German: Empfängnisverhütung (de) f, Kontrazeption f, Verhütung (de) f
• Greek: αντισύλληψη (el) f (antisýllipsi)
• Hungarian: fogamzásgátlás (hu)
• Italian: contraccezione (it) f
• Japanese: 避妊 (ja) (ひにん, hinin)
• Kazakh: контрацепция (kontrasepsiä)
• Kyrgyz: контрацепция (kontratseptsiya)
• Latin: contraconceptio f
• Norman: contraception f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: prevensjon m

  Nynorsk: prevensjon m

• Polish: antykoncepcja (pl) f
• Portuguese: contraceção f
• Russian: контраце́пция (ru) f (kontracépcija)
• Scottish Gaelic: casg-gin m, casg-gineamhainn m
• Spanish: anticoncepción (es) f
• Tagalog: labanlihi, agaw-lihi
• Urdu: امتناعِ حمل (imtinā-e-hamal), ضبطِ تولید (zabt-e-taulīd)

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.tʁa.sɛp.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

contraception f (plural contraceptions)

1. contraception

Further reading

• “contraception”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Norman

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Pronunciation

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Noun

contraception f (plural contraceptions)

1. (Jersey) contraception

Related terms

• contraceptif (“contraceptive”)