noun
Meaning 1
One who discovers: a person who has discovered something.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
discoverer
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noun
Meaning 2
someone who is the first to observe something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: finder, spotter
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: perceiver, percipient, observer, beholder
Narrower terms: co-discoverer
noun
Meaning 3
someone who is the first to think of or make something
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: inventor, artificer
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: creator
Narrower terms: patentee, Bell, Alexander Bell, Alexander Graham Bell, Bessemer, Sir Henry Bessemer, Browning, John M. Browning, John Moses Browning, Burroughs, William Seward Burroughs, Bushnell, David Bushnell, Father of the Submarine, Cartwright, Edmund Cartwright, Daguerre, Louis Jacques Mande Daguerre, De Forest, Lee De Forest, Father of Radio, Eastman, George Eastman, Edison, Thomas Edison, Thomas Alva Edison, Fulton, Robert Fulton, Gatling, Richard Jordan Gatling, Gillette, King Camp Gilette, Goldmark, Peter Goldmark, Peter Carl Goldmark, Goodyear, Charles Goodyear, Hargreaves, James Hargreaves, Hero, Heron, Hero of Alexandria, Hollerith, Herman Hollerith, Howe, Elias Howe, Jacquard, Joseph M. Jacquard, Joseph Marie Jacquard, Land, Din Land, Edwin Herbert Land, Langley, Samuel Pierpoint Langley, Mauser, von Mauser, P. P. von Mauser, Peter Paul Mauser, Maxim, Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, McCormick, Cyrus McCormick, Cyrus Hall McCormick, Mergenthaler, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Morse, Samuel Morse, Samuel F. B. Morse, Samuel Finley Breese Morse, Muybridge, Eadweard Muybridge, Edward James Muggeridge, Otis, Elisha Graves Otis, Singer, Isaac M. Singer, Isaac Merrit Singer, Sperry, Elmer Ambrose Sperry, Stanley, Francis Edgar Stanley, Steinmetz, Charles Proteus Steinmetz, Talbot, Fox Talbot, William Henry Fox Talbot, Tesla, Nikola Tesla, Watt, James Watt, Westinghouse, George Westinghouse, Wheatstone, Sir Charles Wheatstone, Whitney, Eli Whitney, Wright, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright, Zeppelin, Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin
History
Etymology
From Middle English discoverour, dyscowerer, partly from Middle French descouvreur and partly equivalent to discover + -er.
Across languages
Translations
30 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Arabic: مُكْتَشِف (muktašif) — one who discovers
- Belarusian: адкрыва́льнік (adkryválʹnik) — one who discovers
- Catalan: descobridor — one who discovers
- Danish: opdager — one who discovers
- Dutch: ontdekker — one who discovers
- Finnish: löytäjä — one who discovers
- French: découvreur — one who discovers
- Galician: descubridor — one who discovers
- Georgian: აღმომჩენი (aɣmomčeni) — one who discovers
- German: Entdecker — one who discovers
- Ancient Greek: εὑρετής (heuretḗs) — one who discovers
- Ancient Greek: εὑρέτις (heurétis) — one who discovers
- Hungarian: felfedező — one who discovers
- Hungarian: lelő — one who discovers
- Italian: scopritore — one who discovers
- Italian: scopritrice — one who discovers
- Latin: repertor — one who discovers
- Norwegian Bokmål: oppdager — one who discovers
- Old Church Slavonic: обрѣтатєль (obrětatelĭ) — one who discovers
- Persian: کاشف (kâšef) — one who discovers
- Polish: odkrywca — one who discovers
- Polish: odkrywczyni — one who discovers
- Portuguese: descobridor — one who discovers
- Romanian: descoperitor — one who discovers
- Russian: открыва́тель (otkryvátelʹ) — one who discovers
- Spanish: descubridor — one who discovers
- Swedish: upptäckare — one who discovers
- Turkish: kaşif — one who discovers
- Ukrainian: відкрива́ч (vidkryváč) — one who discovers
- Urdu: کاشف (kāśif) — one who discovers
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