RAIDER Synonyms: 26 Similar and Opposite Words

raider

noun

ˈrā-dər

as in invader

one that starts armed conflict against another especially without reasonable cause villagers lived in constant fear of the raiders, who captured their women and children and sold them into slavery

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Recent Examples of raider The Vikings were raiders, pirates, traders, explorers, and colonizers who traveled far beyond their homeland in Scandinavia between the 9th and 11 centuries. —

Encyclopedia Britannica, 2 Apr. 2026 All that maritime commerce also attracted its fair share of Viking raiders from Scandinavia. —

Andrew Paul, Popular Science, 25 Mar. 2026 Give me raiders of the lost past, any day, and forgive them their lack of footnotes. —

Anthony Lane, New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2026 The raiders just went on a 7-0 run to take a 68-67 lead with under six minutes to play. —

Andrew Greif, NBC news, 20 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for raider

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invader

Noun

The resident escaped, but by the time police had responded to the scene, the home invaders had fled.

— Tess Kenny, Chicago Tribune, 29 Apr. 2026
The ratio acts as a record of the chemical environment of 3I/ATLAS' home system, having remained intact throughout the interstellar invader's long journey to the solar system.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 23 Apr. 2026