Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who discovers; one who finds out or first comes to the knowledge of something.
- noun One who uncovers, reveals, or makes known; an informer.
- noun A scout; an explorer.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
- noun A scout; an explorer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One who
discovers ; the person whodiscovered something.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who is the first to think of or make something
- noun someone who is the first to observe something
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Examples
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On the podium of the digital revolution, he stands a few inches clear of Bill Gates of Microsoft, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, but probably on a level with Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the worldwide web actually I prefer the word discoverer because it now seems almost impossible to believe that the web was not out there waiting to be found.
Why I feel such huge gratitude for Steve Jobs's life …. he shaped mine | Henry Porter 2011
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He abhors the word discoverer, as applied to himself.
American Men of Mind Burton Egbert Stevenson 1917
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Burrough therefore is often called the discoverer of Novaya Zemlya, but incorrectly.
The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866
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Leng, its discoverer, is well known in the world of Isle of Wight palaeontology for finding a particularly good valdosaur specimen and for discovering Eotyrannus, so he’s a pretty significant guy.
‘Angloposeidon’, the unreported story, part I Darren Naish 2006
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Leng, its discoverer, is well known in the world of Isle of Wight palaeontology for finding a particularly good valdosaur specimen and for discovering Eotyrannus, so he’s a pretty significant guy.
Archive 2006-07-01 Darren Naish 2006
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The discoverer was an amateur archeologist, a former British commandant who had retired here.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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The discoverer was an amateur archeologist, a former British commandant who had retired here.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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The discoverer was an amateur archeologist, a former British commandant who had retired here.
Gold of Kings Davis Bunn 2009
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Accordingly, she continued her studies with Professor Albert Zanot, who was well known as the discoverer of new talent.
Edis De Philippe. 2009
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Herschel was well known as the discoverer of many clusters, nebulae, and galaxies.
Weekend SkyWatcher's Forecast – November 13-15, 2009 | Universe Today 2009
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