Definition of "discoverer" [dis•cov•er•er]

• One who discovers; the person who discovered something. (noun)

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• "On the podium of the digital revolution, he stands a few inches clear of Bill Gates of Microsoft, Larry Page and Sergey Brin of Google and Mark Zuckerberg of Facebook, but probably on a level with Tim Berners Lee, the inventor of the worldwide web actually I prefer the word discoverer because it now seems almost impossible to believe that the web was not out there waiting to be found."
• "He abhors the word discoverer, as applied to himself."
• "Burrough therefore is often called the discoverer of Novaya Zemlya, but incorrectly."