innovator
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Late Latin innovātor, from innovō;[1] equivalent to innovate + -or.
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ˈɪnəˌveɪtəɹ/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Noun
[edit]innovator (plural innovators)
- Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.
- 2011 March 25, Maria Winckler, “Apache Hadoop takes top prize at Media Guardian Innovation Awards”, in The Guardian[1]:
- Described by the judging panel as a "Swiss army knife of the 21st century", Apache Hadoop picked up the innovator of the year award for having the potential to change the face of media innovations.
- 2011 July 4, Simon Reynolds, “Is Björk the last great pop innovator?”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- Competition gets thinner still when it comes to the 00s: Animal Collective and Joanna Newsom do one thing very well, Gaga and MIA are aggregators not innovators. Björk is peerless.
- 2020 April 7, Peter Conrad, “Abolish Silicon Valley by Wendy Liu review – rebooting our reality”, in The Guardian[3]:
- We now have good reason to question the pursuits of the vaunted innovators with whom Liu consorted in California – the blissed-out cultists at Google, whose only worry is over “the wrong kind of sparkling water in the microkitchens”, or the manic experts who specialise in “envisioning hyperplanes in n-dimensional space”.
- (marketing) An early adopter.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]someone who innovates
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See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “innovator”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
Latin
[edit]Verb
[edit]innovātor
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