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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Innovator \In"no*va'tor\, noun [Cf. F. innovateur.] One who innovates. --Shak.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
innovator
noun: someone who helps to open up a new line of research or technology or art [syn: {pioneer}, {trailblazer}, {groundbreaker}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
58 Moby Thesaurus words for "innovator": agent, alterant, alterative, alterer, ancestor, announcer, antecedent, architect, author, avant-garde, bellwether, buccinator, bushwhacker, catalyst, catalytic agent, creator, developer, explorer, ferment, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, front runner, frontiersman, fugleman, groundbreaker, guide, harbinger, herald, innovationist, introducer, inventor, lead runner, leader, leaven, maker, messenger, modificator, modifier, original, originator, pathfinder, pioneer, point, precedent, precursor, predecessor, producer, scout, stormy petrel, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transformer, transmogrifier, vanguard, vaunt-courier, voortrekker, yeast
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