INVADER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does invader mean? 

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

1. someone who enters by force in order to conquer

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INVADER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who enters by force in order to conquer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

encroacher; invader

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

interloper; intruder; trespasser (someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission)

Derivation:

invade (march aggressively into another's territory by military force for the purposes of conquest and occupation)

invade (to intrude upon, infringe, encroach on, violate)

 Context examples 

It helps your body to recognize these "foreign" invaders.

(Immune System and Disorders, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

In the meantime the astonished team-dogs had burst out of their nests only to be set upon by the fierce invaders.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Bacteria use the CRISPR-Cas system to protect themselves from invaders.

(Novel Approach Gives Insights Into Tumor Development, NIH)

Spider-like cells inside the brain, spinal cord and eye hunt for invaders, capturing and then devouring them.

(In blinding eye disease, trash-collecting cells go awry, accelerate damage, NIH)

His price was paid, his objections silenced, and the mountain gorges lay open to the invaders.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An important addition has been made during the last week to the list of the prizes which have been borne away by these charming invaders.

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

When the invader was triumphant he found but little, for whatever there was had been sheltered in the friendly soil.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Instead of responding to viruses or other foreign invaders in the body, the activated CD8+ T cells launch an inflammatory response to fat, and to bacterial components that migrate to the liver from the gut through the blood.

(When Liver Immune Cells Turn Bad, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

I desired the secretary to present my humble duty to the emperor; and to let him know, that I thought it would not become me, who was a foreigner, to interfere with parties; but I was ready, with the hazard of my life, to defend his person and state against all invaders.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

After tea, we sat at the window—on the look-out, as I imagined, from my aunt's sharp expression of face, for more invaders—until dusk, when Janet set candles, and a backgammon-board, on the table, and pulled down the blinds.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)