discoverer

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   One who discovers: a person who has discovered something.

   [W]hen the flowꝛes there haue been ſufficiently wꝛought, they [bees] ſend abꝛoade their diſcouerers to finde out moꝛe foode.

2. 2
   noun

   someone who is the first to observe something

3. 3
   noun

   someone who is the first to think of or make something

From Middle English discoverour, dyscowerer, partly from Middle French descouvreur and partly equivalent to discover + -er.

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