discoverer
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- noun
- /dɪsˈkʌvərər/
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descubridor
- Today is the federal holiday honoring Christopher Columbus, the alleged discoverer of the Americas.
- discoverer and/or inventor
Second, a famous poet is less an inventor than a discoverer.
- Second, a famous poet is less an inventor than a discoverer.
- They're supposed to have been the the discoverers of precession.
- So this element EB was discovered shortly afterwards and it was named by the discoverer of the element scandium.
- And yet when its discoverer, Daniel Siebert.
- He says, let the discoverer of the mind's good be the mind.
- My uncle Willie Mitchell, who was a discoverer.
- We doomed humanity like Francis Crick, who was a Co discoverer of the three-dimensional structure of DNA was a physicist.
- If you want to be discoverers, if you want to be innovators, I am going to give you what type of what type of characteristics you must have.
Examples
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Nicholson thus joined Galileo as the discoverer of four Jovian satellites.
Academic text (1999) -
Look at somebody like the Co discoverer of DNA, Jim Watson.
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So he was for a time considered to be the discoverer of this comet.
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Erikson was really the first discoverer.
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Nevertheless, this feature has retained the name "Mountains of Mitchel" in honor of its discoverer.
Academic text (2005) -
Graduate student Louise Johnson is credited as Co discoverer of this, the first enzyme ever to be solved.
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We've got a lot of very important people here-- discoverers, inventors, people who did very good things.
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Comets are named for the discoverer or discoverers as recorded in the IAU Circulars.
Academic text (2000) -
Hawaii replaced Columbus Day with Discoverer's Day, commemorating the Polynesian discoverers of the Islands.
Blog text (4) -
Jim Watson is widely recognized as a discoverer of DNA, sharing his findings with the world.
Synonyms
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A person who finds something valuable, like a fossil or document
A person who finds something for the first time together with one or more others
Compounds
How Pioneering
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Morphology
Etymology
The word discoverer comes from the verb discover, which originally meant to 'remove a cover' and is made of dis- 'remove' and cover. So a discoverer is someone who 'uncovers' or finds something new.