INTRUDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does intruder mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INTRUDER (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 ("intruder" 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 "intruder"):

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:

intrude (enter uninvited)

intrude (enter unlawfully on someone's property)

 Context examples 

The intruder took in the scene without a quiver.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Sherlock Holmes had sprung out and seized the intruder by the collar.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His method was to drive straight at the intruder, and to sink his teeth in if he could.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

His anxiety for Jane was evident, and his attentions to herself most pleasing, and they prevented her feeling herself so much an intruder as she believed she was considered by the others.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

With a resigned air and a somewhat weary smile, Holmes begged the beautiful intruder to take a seat, and to inform us what it was that was troubling her.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Good-morning, Lanner,” answered Holmes; “you won’t think me an intruder, I am sure. Have you heard of the events which led up to this affair?”

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Who are you?" he asked of the intruder.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He was just beginning to orientate himself and to feel that he was not wholly an intruder.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If a gentleman was the victim of spies, intruders, and informers (but still naming no names), that was his own pleasure.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She had not spirits to notice her in more than a few repulsive looks, but she felt her as a spy, and an intruder, and an indigent niece, and everything most odious.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)