inventor
/ɪnˈvɛntə/US/ɪnˈvɛntɚ/
inventor noun: one who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
Noun
inventor (plural inventors)
- One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
- Thomas Edison was the inventor of the phonograph.
- The young inventor received a patent for her design.
inventor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
inventor in Hindi
- inventor
- आविष्कारक āviṣkārak
inventor in Tamil
- முந்துற்றவர்
inventor in Marathi
- inventor
- संशोधक sauśodhak
inventor in Urdu
- inventor
- بدیع badīʻ, پروردگار parvardigār
More languagesFewer languages
- inventor in Bengali
- উদ্ভাবক, আবিষ্কারক
- inventor in Telugu
- ఆవిష్కర్త, ఆవిష్కరణకర్త
- inventor in Malayalam
- കണ്ടുപിടിത്തക്കാരൻ, കണ്ടുപിടിത്തം നടത്തുന്നയാൾ, പ്രകാശകൻ, കണ്ടുപിടിക്കുന്നവൻ
- inventor in Kannada
- ಆವಿಷ್ಕಾರಕ
- inventor in Punjabi
- ਕਾਢਕਾਰ
- inventor in Gujarati
- આવિષ્કારક
- inventor in Odia
- ଉଦ୍ଭାବକ, ଆବିଷ୍କାରକ
- inventor in Sanskrit
- मनोतृ
- inventor in Nepali
- आविष्कारक, आविष्कारकर्ता, आविष्कर्त्ता
- inventor in Arabic
- مُخْتَرِع muḵtariʕ, مُبْتَكِر mubtakir
- inventor in Persian
- مخترع moxtare'
- inventor in Thai
- นักประดิษฐ์ nák-bprà-dìt
Examples of inventor in a sentence
- Of all the inventors to obtain patents, only a few have really built a better mousetrap.
- The exhibitors at the aviation conference included the inventor of a new kind of light aircraft.
- Thomas Edison is known the whole world over as the inventor of the light-bulb.
Forms of inventor
| plural | inventors |
|---|---|
| alternative form (obsolete) | inventour |
Origin of inventor
Borrowed from Latin inventor. By surface analysis, invent + -or.
Words formed from inventor
Words that rhyme with inventor
- center
- enter
- tormentor
- concentre
- presenter
- renter
- stentor
- venter
- accentor
- cementer
- decentre
- preventer
47 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- reenter
- tenter
- assenter
- fermenter
- hypocentre
- indenter
- off-centre
- Valley Center
- absenter
- assentor
- augmenter
- augmentor
- barycentre
- centre
- coinventor
- concenter
- consenter
- correction center
- correction centre
- decenter
- dementor
- dissenter
- entre
- fermentor
- fomenter
- incenter
- incentre
- indentor
- innoventor
- inventer
- inventour
- lamenter
- mentor
- metacentre
- misenter
- off-center
- orthocenter
- orthocentre
- precentor
- re-enter
- re-entre
- reentre
- repenter
- representer
- salipenter
- Siberian accentor
- tormenter
Questions about inventor
- What does inventor mean?
- Inventor means one who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
- What is inventor in Hindi?
- Inventor in Hindi is आविष्कारक (āviṣkārak). See Inventor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is inventor?
- Inventor is a noun.
- How do you pronounce inventor?
- Inventor is pronounced /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/ (US).
- What is the plural of inventor?
- The plural of inventor is inventors.
Words near inventor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: inventor (page history and authors); आविष्कारक (Hindi) (page history and authors); inventor (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); संशोधक (Marathi) (page history and authors); بدیع (Urdu) (page history and authors); inventor (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inventor (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inventor (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); inventor (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inventor (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inventor (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); inventor (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); मनोतृ (Sanskrit) (page history and authors); inventor (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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