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innovator

noun
/ˈɪnəˌveɪtəɹ/

Etymology

From Late Latin innovātor, from innovō; equivalent to innovate + -or.

  1. borrowed from innovātor

Definitions

  1. Someone who innovates

    Someone who innovates; a creator of new ideas.

    • Described by the judging panel as a "Swiss army knife of the 21st century", Apache Hadoop picked up the innovator of the year award for having the potential to change the face of media innovations.
    • Competition gets thinner still when it comes to the 00s: Animal Collective and Joanna Newsom do one thing very well, Gaga and MIA are aggregators not innovators. Björk is peerless.

  2. An early adopter.

The neighborhood

Derived

innovator's dilemma, innoventor

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for innovator. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA