INTERLOPER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does interloper mean? 

• INTERLOPER (noun)
  The noun INTERLOPER has 1 sense:

1. someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission

  Familiarity information: INTERLOPER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTERLOPER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

interloper; intruder; trespasser

Hypernyms ("interloper" is a kind of...):

persona non grata; unwelcome person (a person who for some reason is not wanted or welcome)

entrant (someone who enters)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "interloper"):

boarder (someone who forces their way aboard ship)

crasher; gatecrasher; unwelcome guest (someone who gets in (to a party) without an invitation or without paying)

infiltrator (an intruder (as troops) with hostile intent)

encroacher; invader (someone who enters by force in order to conquer)

penetrator (an intruder who passes into or through (often by overcoming resistance))

prowler; sneak; stalker (someone who prowls or sneaks about; usually with unlawful intentions)

pusher; thruster (one who intrudes or pushes himself forward)

squatter (someone who settles on land without right or title)

alien; stranger; unknown (anyone who does not belong in the environment in which they are found)

Derivation:

interlope (encroach on the rights of others, as in trading without a proper license)

 Context examples 

Mrs. Reed probably considered she had kept this promise; and so she had, I dare say, as well as her nature would permit her; but how could she really like an interloper not of her race, and unconnected with her, after her husband's death, by any tie?

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

My dear children, pursued the black marble clergyman, with pathos, this is a sad, a melancholy occasion; for it becomes my duty to warn you, that this girl, who might be one of God's own lambs, is a little castaway: not a member of the true flock, but evidently an interloper and an alien.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)