inventor
Americannoun
noun
Other Word Forms
- inventress noun
Etymology
Origin of inventor
Example Sentences
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Instead, the Admiralty fed information about their system to a naval officer named Frederick Dreyer, who was a capable gunnery officer but not the great inventor he fancied himself to be.
Look Mum No Computer is a solo artist, songwriter and YouTuber, who is also described as "an inventor of unique musical machines".
From BBC
To that end, he launched Snowcap with two co-founders, Chief Science Officer Anna Herr, a physicist, and Chief Technical Officer Quentin Herr, an electrical engineer, the inventors of the company’s superconducting technology.
It made sense to many nineteenth-century Americans that their greatest inventor would be involved in this new discovery of spirit communications.
From Literature
Maybe in the boldest meta twist of all, the inventor of “Scream” wants to kill it off himself.
From Los Angeles Times
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