Trespasser

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    One who trespasses; an interloper.

    "Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases."

  2. 2
    someone who intrudes on the privacy or property of another without permission wordnet

Synonyms

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buttinskycriminalgate crasherinterloperintruderintruder

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"Pilton Yard, the Lynton & Barnstaple headquarters, has been taken over by a fur trading firm, and would-be trespassers to the old engine-shed are turned back by the pungent odour of heaps of carcases."

Etymology

From trespass + -er.

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