TRESPASSER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does trespasser mean? 

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

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

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• TRESPASSER (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 ("trespasser" 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 "trespasser"):

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:

trespass (enter unlawfully on someone's property)

 Context examples 

A warning snarl told him that the trespasser was Spitz.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

Toller lets him loose every night, and God help the trespasser whom he lays his fangs upon.

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