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# raider

«raider» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who makes a sudden attack on a place, especially…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a raider, raiders)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A raider is a person who makes a sudden attack on a place, especially to steal things or cause damage, for example Viking raiders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/#m1)

2) A raider is a robber who breaks into a shop or bank suddenly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/#m2)

3) In sport, games and stories, raiders are attackers who make quick surprise attacks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In history lessons it names Vikings who attacked monasteries and towns by boat, and border raiders. In news it is used for robbers («ram raiders» crash a car into a shop). In stories it means a bandit or attacker. Phrases: «Viking raiders», «ram raiders», «raiders of the lost ark», «fridge raider» (joking: someone who sneaks snacks).

### examples

- Viking raiders attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/#x1)
- The raiders sailed away with gold and slaves. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/#x2)
- Police caught the bank raiders. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/#x3)
- Ram raiders smashed a car through the shop window. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/#x4)
- The castle walls kept the raiders out. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/#x5)
- My brother is a fridge raider at midnight. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/#x6)
- In the game, raiders try to steal your treasure. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/#x7)

### note

Countable: a raider, raiders. Verb: raid. Noun: a raid. Do not confuse with «rider» (someone riding a horse or bike).

### In the corpora

- [The Great Wall is not one wall but many, built over 2,000 years against horse-riding raiders from the north.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/history/9-ancient-china-dynasties-the-first-emperor-and-the-great-wall/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «raider» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/R/raider/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.