invader
noun/ɪnˈveɪ.də(ɹ)/
Etymology From invade + -er.
1
One who invades a region.
- He remarks on the growth of the pretensions of the invaders since the treaty between Alfred and Guthrum which put the Northern warriors only on the same level as the twelf[-]hyndmen, or ordinary thegns.1906, Thomas Hodgkin, The History of England from the Earliest Times to the Norman Conquest, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., […]; New York; Bombay, page 436:
- The underroot tendril! We are at fault for giving the invader a path to Lady Brianna.2024, Fred Perry, Gold Digger Omnibus #10:
2
An intruder (especially on someone's privacy).
- Derived terms
- bioinvader, cyberinvader, home invader, pitch invader, space invader