inventor B2 Topic:People & Society US /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/ UK /ɪnˈvɛntə/ See IPA manual Freq #12713 Meanings 1 noun A person who creates or designs something new. Thomas Edison was the inventor of the phonograph. Thesaurus Word family Forms inventors Etymology AI details Borrowed from Latin inventor. By surface analysis, invent + -or. inventor Latin View etymology graph -> Topics People & Society External links Cambridge Dictionary Wiktionary Google Images # inventor **Type:** Word **Level:** B2 **Part of speech:** noun **IPA (US):** /ɪnˈvɛntɚ/ **IPA (UK):** /ɪnˈvɛntə/ **Frequency rank:** 12713 ## Meanings 1. A person who creates or designs something new. ## Examples - Thomas Edison was the inventor of the phonograph. ## Roots and Affixes - Root: inventor - Affix: -or - one who ## Etymology Borrowed from Latin inventor. By surface analysis, invent + -or. ## AI Etymology Inventor is borrowed from Latin inventor. By surface analysis, invent + -or. The analysis is mainly morphological: the modern nominal form is built from the named base and affix. ## Topics - People & Society markdown