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noun
One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
noun
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.
Synonyms: discoverer, 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
Borrowed from Latin inventor. By surface analysis, invent + -or.
Across languages
64 source translations are retained for this English entry.
