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Noun inventor has 1 sense

• inventor(n = noun.person) artificer, discoverer - someone who is the first to think of or make something; Array
is a kind of creator
has particulars: patentee, alexander bell, alexander graham bell, 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, father of radio, lee de forest, eastman, george eastman, edison, thomas alva edison, thomas edison, fulton, robert fulton, gatling, richard jordan gatling, gillette, king camp gilette, goldmark, peter carl goldmark, peter goldmark, charles goodyear, goodyear, hargreaves, james hargreaves, hero, hero of alexandria, heron, herman hollerith, hollerith, elias howe, howe, jacquard, joseph m. jacquard, joseph marie jacquard, din land, edwin herbert land, land, langley, samuel pierpoint langley, mauser, p. p. von mauser, peter paul mauser, von mauser, maxim, sir hiram stevens maxim, cyrus hall mccormick, cyrus mccormick, mccormick, mergenthaler, ottmar mergenthaler, morse, samuel f. b. morse, samuel finley breese morse, samuel morse, eadweard muybridge, edward james muggeridge, muybridge, elisha graves otis, otis, isaac m. singer, isaac merrit singer, singer, elmer ambrose sperry, sperry, francis edgar stanley, stanley, charles proteus steinmetz, steinmetz, fox talbot, talbot, william henry fox talbot, nikola tesla, tesla, james watt, watt, george westinghouse, westinghouse, sir charles wheatstone, wheatstone, eli whitney, whitney, orville wright, wright, wilbur wright, wright, count ferdinand von zeppelin, zeppelin
Derived form verb invent₁

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inventor

n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

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inventor

ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creative artist, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, fancier, fantasist, fantast, father, founder, generator, grower, imaginer, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, mythicizer, mythifier, mythmaker, mythopoet, organizer, original, originator, past master, patriarch, planner, poet, precursor, prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith, wright

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inventor

Producer

N producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover, maker, prime mover.

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