Discoverer

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. One who discovers; one who finds out or first comes to the knowledge of something.
  • noun. One who uncovers, reveals, or makes known; an informer.
  • noun. A scout; an explorer.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. One who discovers; one who first comes to the knowledge of something; one who discovers an unknown country, or a new principle, truth, or fact.
  • noun. A scout; an explorer.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. One who discovers; the person who discovered something.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. someone who is the first to think of or make something
  • noun. someone who is the first to observe something
  • Word Usage
    "On the podium of the digital revolution, he stands a few inches clear of Bill Gates of Microsoft, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, but probably on a level with Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the worldwide web actually I prefer the word discoverer because it now seems almost impossible to believe that the web was not out there waiting to be found."
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    explorer  scout