discoverer

English

Etymology

discover +‎ -er

Noun

discoverer (plural discoverers)

1. One who discovers: a person who has discovered something.
   • 1930, Norman Lindsay, Redheap, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1965, page 30:

     But this was subterfuge to defeat the curiosity of a chance discoverer.

Synonyms

• repertor (obsolete)

Translations

one who discovers

• Catalan: descobridor m
• Danish: opdager c
• French: découvreur (fr) f
• Galician: descubridor m
• German: Entdecker (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient: εὑρετής m (heuretḗs), εὑρέτις f (heurétis)

• Hungarian: felfedező (hu), lelő (hu)
• Italian: scopritore (it) m, scopritrice f
• Latin: repertor m
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: oppdager (no) m

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• Old Church Slavonic: обрѣтатєль (obrětatelĭ)
• Persian: کاشف (fa) (kâšef)
• Polish: odkrywca (pl) m, odkrywczyni f
• Portuguese: descobridor (pt) m
• Romanian: descoperitor (ro) m
• Spanish: descubridor m or f
• Swedish: upptäckare (sv) c
• Turkish: kaşif (tr)
• Urdu: کاشف (kāśif)

Anagrams

• rediscover, redivorces