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invader

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English

Etymology

From invade + -er.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ɪnˈveɪ.də(ɹ)/
  • Audio (US):(file)
  • Rhymes: -eɪdə(ɹ)

Noun

invader (plural invaders)

  1. One who invades a region.
    Synonyms: assailant, encroacher
    • 1906, Thomas Hodgkin, The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., []; New York; Bombay, page 436:
      He remarks on the growth of the pretensions of the invaders since the treaty between Alfred and Guthrum which put the Northern warriors only on the same level as the twelf[-]hyndmen, or ordinary thegns.
    • 2024, Fred Perry, Gold Digger Omnibus #10:
      The underroot tendril! We are at fault for giving the invader a path to Lady Brianna.
  2. An intruder (especially on someone's privacy).

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