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INTRUDER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission
Synonyms:
interloper; intruder; trespasser
Classified under:
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:
At such times the intruder silently withdrew, and not until the red bow was seen gaily erect upon the gifted brow, did anyone dare address Jo.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
I could tell the direction of the speakers pretty exactly, not only by the sound of their voices but by the behaviour of the few birds that still hung in alarm above the heads of the intruders.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Lucy became as necessary to Mrs. Ferrars, as either Robert or Fanny; and while Edward was never cordially forgiven for having once intended to marry her, and Elinor, though superior to her in fortune and birth, was spoken of as an intruder, SHE was in every thing considered, and always openly acknowledged, to be a favourite child.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Faced by ferocious creatures which they had never before seen, they took refuge in the caves which our young friend has described, but they have no doubt had a bitter fight to hold their own against wild beasts, and especially against the ape-men who would regard them as intruders, and wage a merciless war upon them with a cunning which the larger beasts would lack.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
This ill-timed intruder was Miss Tilney's maid, sent by her mistress to be of use to Miss Morland; and though Catherine immediately dismissed her, it recalled her to the sense of what she ought to be doing, and forced her, in spite of her anxious desire to penetrate this mystery, to proceed in her dressing without further delay.
(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)
Before he knew what he was doing, he had slashed the intruder twice and sprung clear.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
I soon saw that the intruder had left other traces of his presence besides the rumpled papers.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
You examined the room, I presume, to see if the intruder had left any traces—any cigar-end or dropped glove or hairpin or other trifle?
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I don't mind acknowledging to you that I've got rather a grudging disposition, and want to keep off all intruders.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
But my night was wretched, my rest broken: the ground was damp, the air cold: besides, intruders passed near me more than once, and I had again and again to change my quarters; no sense of safety or tranquillity befriended me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
