inventor

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=ven=tor

CIDE DICTIONARY

inventor, n. [L.: cf. F. inventeur.].

 One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices, new drugs, new processes, or other useful objects or procedures.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

inventor, n. (fem. inventress) a person who invents, esp. as an occupation.

DEVIL DICTIONARY

inventor

n. A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.

THESAURUS

inventor

ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author, begetter, beginner, builder, conceiver, constructor, craftsman, creative artist, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer, effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, fancier, fantasist, fantast, father, founder, generator, grower, imaginer, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator, instigator, institutor, introducer, journeyman, maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, mythicizer, mythifier, mythmaker, mythopoet, organizer, original, originator, past master, patriarch, planner, poet, precursor, prime mover, producer, raiser, realizer, shaper, sire, smith, wright

ROGET THESAURUS

inventor

Producer

N producer, originator, inventor, author, founder, generator, mover, architect, creator, prime mover, maker, prime mover.