From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Inventor \In*vent"or\, noun [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 +PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
noun
1: someone who is the first to think of or make something [syn: {discoverer}, {artificer}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
62 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
INVENTOR, noun A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels, levers and springs, and believes it civilization.
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