home invadern.
/ˈhəʊm ɪnˌveɪdə/, U.S. /ˈhoʊm ɪnˌveɪdər/ 1. A member of a foreign force invading one's home nation. rare.
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1823 Ld. Byron Age of Bronze vii. 19 These worst, these home invaders, felt and feel The new Numantine soul of old Castile.
2. Chiefly North American, Australian, and New Zealand (originally U.S.). A perpetrator of a home invasion; a burglar, an intruder.
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the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > burglar > [noun]
housebreakera1400
burglary1533
burglar1541
burglarer1598
mill1607
mill-ken1667
hoister1708
crack1749
cracksman1819
screwsman1819
screwer1831
crib-cracker1879
cracker1886
key worker1895
houseman1904
home invader1907
in and out man1961
1907 Atlanta Constit. 19 Aug. 1/3 (heading) Husband kills home invader.
1934 N.Y. Times 4 Dec. 12/3 (headline) Ingalls home invader held. Jerry Jennings, restaurant worker, captured early Wednesday morning hiding in the apartment of Mrs. Abbot Ingalls..was held yesterday..on a charge of burglary.
1975 F. Hohimer (title) The home invaders: confessions of a cat burglar.
1985 Chicago Tribune 14 Jan. 5 Rappaport attacked Hendricks' contention that the murders were committed by home invaders.
2001 Evening Post (Wellington, N.Z.) (Electronic ed.) 16 July There was relief when Hutt police finally arrested a knife-wielding robber and home invader earlier this year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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