discoverer

[dih-skuhv-er-er]

noun

1. a person who discovers.

2. (initial capital letter),  one of an early series of polar-orbiting reconnaissance satellites.

Other Word Forms

• prediscoverer noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of discoverer¹

1250–1300; Middle English < Old French descovreur. See discover, -er ¹ ( def. )

Example Sentences

He was a true renaissance man—a best-selling author, an undersea adventurer, and a discoverer of long-lost ships.

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“It became clear that the name could be stigmatizing to Alaska,” says Joseph McLaughlin, Alaska’s state epidemiologist and one of the virus’ discoverers.

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Members of her species didn’t take their first upright steps in open savanna grasslands, as her discoverers thought, but walked first in a grassy woodland with deciduous trees.

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Famous for detecting the “cool” sensation of menthol, it also detects cold temperatures and helped earn its discoverers the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2021.

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Then there is one final problem for the discoverer of a giant new successful drug.

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