inventor
noun
a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.
inventer
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a variation of
inventor.
Example Sentences
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First patented as a container for oysters by a Chicago inventer called Frederick Weeks Wilcox, the design hasn’t changed since.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 16, 2014
US inventer Thomas Edison was renowned for the sheer number of his patents.
From BBC ● Sep. 5, 2012
Il faudrait les inventer, those hooks, on purpose for me alone, for, if you only knew, Alyosha, what a blackguard I am.”
From The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
He was, above all, “a mighty-mouthed inventer of harmonies,” and one looked eagerly for his next poems.
From Letters on Literature by Andrew Lang
Monardes tells us that it was so called after Nicot, “my very friend ye first author inventer and bringer of this hearbe into France.”
From The Old English Herbals by Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
