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inventour

inventour is the obsolete form of inventor.

Meaning of inventor

Noun

inventor (plural inventors)

  1. One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.
    • Thomas Edison was the inventor of the phonograph.

Forms of inventour

pluralinventours

Words that rhyme with inventour

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Questions about inventour

What is inventour the obsolete form of?
Inventour is the obsolete form of inventor.

Words near inventour in the dictionary

  1. inventory
  2. inventory management
  3. inventory tetris
  4. inventorying
  5. inventoryless
  6. inventour
  7. inventours
  8. inventress
  9. inventresses
  10. inventrices
  11. inventrix

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inventour (page history and authors); inventor (page history and authors). 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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