Discoverer
//dɪˈskʌvəɹəɹ// noun
noun ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who discovers: a person who has discovered something.
"[W]hen the flowꝛes there haue been ſufficiently wꝛought, they [bees] ſend abꝛoade their diſcouerers to finde out moꝛe foode."
- 2 someone who is the first to observe something wordnet
- 3 someone who is the first to think of or make something wordnet
Example
More examples"Le Verrier expected to be declared the sole discoverer of Neptune, but months prior to his calculations being completed John Couch Adams, an English mathematician, had accomplished the same feat. As a consequence, Le Verrier and Adams share the honor as Neptune's discoverers."
Etymology
From Middle English discoverour, dyscowerer, partly from Middle French descouvreur and partly equivalent to discover + -er.
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