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inventor

American  
[in-ven-ter] / ɪnˈvɛn tər /
Or inventer

noun

  1. a person who invents, especially one who devises some new process, appliance, machine, or article; one who makes inventions.

inventor British  
/ ɪnˈvɛntə /

noun

  1. a person who invents, esp as a profession

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Other Word Forms

  • inventress noun

Etymology

Origin of inventor

From Latin, dating back to 1500–10; invent, -tor

Example Sentences

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On Boxing Day, an edit by Sir James - the billionaire inventor of the bagless vacuum cleaner - will consider how the UK could boost its entrepreneurial spirit.

From BBC

He also learned early at Amazon the importance of focus for an organization, especially when his inventor mind was busy churning out new ideas.

From The Wall Street Journal

And yet its inventor would only get to see a portion of the royalties after selling off some of the rights prematurely.

From BBC

A whole lot of inventors, artists, writers, musicians, engineers, mathematicians, and captains of industry are and have always been autistic.

From Seattle Times

They were originally developed in the 1990s to make more accurate optical atomic clocks, for which the inventors won the 2005 Nobel Prize in Physics.

From Scientific American

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