different between intrude vs interloper

English

Etymology

From Latin intrudere, from in- + trudere (“to thrust”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?t?u?d/
• Rhymes: -u?d

Verb

intrude (third-person singular simple present intrudes, present participle intruding, simple past and past participle intruded)

1. (intransitive) To thrust oneself in; to come or enter without invitation, permission, or welcome; to encroach; to trespass.

   to intrude on families at unseasonable hours; to intrude on the lands of another

   • I. Watts

     Some thoughts rise and intrude upon us, while we shun them; others fly from us, when we would hold them.

2. (transitive) To force in.

Derived terms

• intruder
• intrusion

Related terms

Translations

See also

• invade

Anagrams

• turdine, untired, untride, untried

Italian

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ude

Verb

intrude

1. third-person singular present indicative of intrudere

English

Etymology

1590s, from inter- +? loper (“runner, rover”), as in landloper (“vagrant”) (from lope (“to leap, to jump”) (originally dialectal)). Originally spelt enterloper and used in specific sense “unauthorized trader trespassing on privileges of chartered companies”, later general sense of “self-interested intruder” from 1630s.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): [??nt??l???p?]
• (US) IPA^(key): [??????lo??p?], [??nt??lo??p?]

Noun

interloper (plural interlopers)

1. (obsolete) An unlicensed or illegitimate trader.
2. One who interferes, intrudes or gets involved where not welcome, particularly a self-interested intruder.

   They disliked the interloper, and forced him to leave.

Related terms

• interlope
• lope

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References

Further reading

• Interloper in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)