Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who invades; an assailant; an encroacher; an intruder.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who enters by force in order to conquer

Etymologies

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to invade +‎ -er

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Examples

  • According to this logic, the occupied people must be held to a much higher standard of behavior than the invader should be – at least when the invader is the United States.

    US troops swap war pix for porn 2005

  • According to this logic, the occupied people must be held to a much higher standard of behavior than the invader should be – at least when the invader is the United States.

    US troops swap war pix for porn 2005

  • History tells us that no matter how technologically advanced an invader is the people of Afghanistan always unite and prevail to fight each other another day while the Pakistanis in the NWP are Pashstun who are ethnically tied to a group of the Afghanistan people and probably possess their innate hatred of ferangi in their country.

    They’re In Control | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • If the invader is offering insult or danger to others, you need to call on an organizer, or if you are an organizer, to escort the invader out and not let them back in.

    How To Welcome Outsiders 2006

  • Usually the invader is just looking for attention and the best way to shut him/her down is to withdraw attention.

    How To Welcome Outsiders 2006

  • Usually the invader is just looking for attention and the best way to shut him/her down is to withdraw attention.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • If the invader is offering insult or danger to others, you need to call on an organizer, or if you are an organizer, to escort the invader out and not let them back in.

    SeeLight: 2006

  • [1] It would be rare in history, if not unprecedented, for the people of ANY nation to welcome a foreign invader from a different continent, culture, and religion that invaded them on the basis of claims that were false from the outset, and killed 100,000 of their citizens.

    Think Progress » Embedded TIME Reporter: Bush Lied In Speech Yesterday About Iraqi Security Forces 2005

  • In Shakespeare's Henry V the French King Charles VI cautions his overconfident nobles that despite the erstwhile Prince Hal's reputation as a wastrel, the young invader is bred out of that bloody strain/That haunted us in our familiar paths.

    How We Become What We Are 1994

  • In Shakespeare's Henry V the French King Charles VI cautions his overconfident nobles that despite the erstwhile Prince Hal's reputation as a wastrel, the young invader is bred out of that bloody strain/That haunted us in our familiar paths.

    How We Become What We Are 1994

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