discoverer
1. [ noun ] someone who is the first to observe something
Synonyms: spotter finder
Related terms: perceiver
2. [ noun ] someone who is the first to think of or make something
Synonyms: inventor artificer
Related terms: creator patentee burroughs Edison bessemer gillette charles_goodyear cartwright daguerre Fulton eastman gatling elisha_graves_otis isaac_m._singer elmer_ambrose_sperry hargreaves hero herman_hollerith elias_howe jacquard de_forest langley mauser maxim cyrus_hall_mccormick mergenthaler morse eadweard_muybridge goldmark browning Bell francis_edgar_stanley charles_proteus_steinmetz fox_talbot nikola_tesla james_watt george_westinghouse sir_charles_wheatstone eli_whitney orville_wright wilbur_wright count_ferdinand_von_zeppelin bushnell din_land discover
3. [ noun ] (geography) someone who is the first to explore a place
Synonyms: spotter finder
Related terms: perceiver explorer witness detect find descry
Similar spelling:   discover
  discovery
  discovered
  discoverable
  Discovery_Day
  dissever
  disprover
  disprove
  disk_overhead
  diaspora