Synonyms:
finder, discoverer, spotter
Meaning: someone who is the first to observe something
Synonyms:
inventor, discoverer, artificer
Meaning: someone who is the first to think of or make something
Usage examples
And how often perhaps has not every one of these secrets perished with the discoverer?
From this period Drake's part as a discoverer is ended, and his after-life as a warrior and as the implacable enemy of the Spaniards does not concern us.
"Yes," my uncle replied, "the Liedenbrock Sea; and I don't suppose any other discoverer will ever dispute my claim to name it after myself as its first discoverer."
If he have any claim to a place in this portrait gallery of great sailors, it is neither as founder of any English colony nor as a sailor; it is as a discoverer, and what we have to say of him is not to his credit.