'Inventor' definitions:
Definition of 'inventor'
(from WordNet)
noun
Someone who is the first to think of or make something [syn: inventor, discoverer, artificer]
Definition of 'Inventor'
From: GCIDE
- Inventor \In*vent"or\, n. [L.: cf. F. inventeur.] One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices, new drugs, new processes, or other useful objects or procedures. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Synonyms of 'inventor'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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