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Plural of inventor

regular plural

The plural of inventor is inventors.

Forms of inventor

Singularinventor /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/
Pluralinventors
Countablecountable

Inventors in a sentence

  • Of all the inventors to obtain patents, only a few have really built a better mousetrap.From the entry build a better mousetrap
  • Whether you call them garden shed inventors or backyard innovators, they've made big contributions to gross national income on both sides of the Atlantic.From the entry garden shed
  • Much of Chinese mythology appears to have been the result of euhemerization, the later deification of Neolithic tribal leaders and inventors incompletely remembered through oral traditions and now-lost records.From the entry euhemerization
  • They are innovative inventors that are re-creating and bettering existing products and technologies.2011 October 21, Cheryl Swanson, “Millennials and the Recession Trends: Innoventing, Neo-Bartering, and Q-Rewarding”, in Popsop, archived…. From the entry innovent
  • The cleverest and most prolific inventors, such as Reiner Knizia (who lives in England) are nerdy superstars.2008 August 28, “German recreation: An affinity for rules?”, in The Economist, archived from the original on 02 Feb 2021. From the entry clever

Meaning of inventor

  1. noun One who invents, either as a hobby or as an occupation.

Full definition of inventor

Questions about the plural of inventor

What is the plural of inventor?
The plural of inventor is inventors.
Is inventor countable?
Inventor is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: inventor (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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