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discoverer

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dis·cov·er  (d-skvr)
tr.v. dis·cov·ered, dis·cov·er·ing, dis·cov·ers
1. To notice or learn, especially by making an effort: got home and discovered that the furnace wasn't working.
2.
a. To be the first, or the first of one's group or kind, to find, learn of, or observe.
b. To learn about for the first time in one's experience: discovered a new restaurant on the west side.
3. To learn something about: discovered him to be an impostor; discovered the brake to be defective.
4. To identify (a person) as a potentially prominent performer: a movie star who was discovered in a drugstore by a producer.
5. Archaic To reveal or expose.

[Middle English discoveren, to reveal, from Old French descovrir, from Late Latin discooperre : Latin dis-, dis- + Latin cooperre, to cover; see cover.]

dis·cover·a·ble adj.
dis·cover·er n.
Synonyms: discover, ascertain, determine, learn
These verbs mean to gain knowledge or awareness of something not known before: discovered a star in a distant galaxy; ascertaining the facts; tried to determine the origins of the problem; learned the sad news from the radio.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.discovererdiscoverer - someone who is the first to think of or make something
creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things
patentee - the inventor to whom a patent is issued
2.discoverer - someone who is the first to observe something
beholder, observer, perceiver, percipient - a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses
co-discoverer - someone who is the first of two or more people to discover something

discoverer
noun
1. explorer, pioneer the myth of the heroic discoverer
2. inventor, author, creator, originator, initiator the discoverer of carbon-dioxide lasers
Translations
discoverer [dɪsˈkʌvərəʳ] Ndescubridor(a) m/f
discoverer [dɪsˈkʌvər] ndécouvreur/euse m/f
the discoverer of sth → le découvreur de qch
discoverer
nEntdecker(in) m(f)
discoverer [dɪsˈkʌvrəʳ] nscopritore/trice
discoverer [dɪsˈkʌvrəʳ] nscopritore/trice


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Haarlem offered prizes for tulip-growing; and this fact brings us in the most natural manner to that celebration which the city intended to hold on May 15th, 1673 in honour of the great black tulip, immaculate and perfect, which should gain for its discoverer one hundred thousand guilders!
Besides, this idea of Jonah's weathering the Cape of Good Hope at so early a day would wrest the honor of the discovery of that great headland from Bartholomew Diaz, its reputed discoverer, and so make modern history a liar.
This intrepid discoverer proposes to traverse all Africa from east to west IN A BALLOON.
 
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