Other forms: inventors
An inventor is somebody who thinks up something new. A famous inventor, the inventor of the telephone, an inventor's notebook.
Single names are usually a simplification: most inventions were arrived at by several people at once, and who is remembered often turns on who filed first. Patent law names an inventor as a person, which is why the question of machine-made inventions is unsettled.
1nouninventorSomebody who thinks up something new.
“The inventor of the telephone is usually said to be Alexander Graham Bell.”
inventor is a person.
Latin inventor comes from invenire, to come upon or find — in plus venire, to come.
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English, today
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Borrowed from Latin inventor. by surface analysis, invent + -or.
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