figurative and in figurative contexts. A person who makes, designs, or devises something, esp. with skill or care; the creator or originator of…

One who or that which feigns, in various senses of the verb; †a fashioner, constructor, inventor; the contriver of a fiction (obsolete); a simulator…

A person who or thing which finds something (in various senses of the verb). A person who contrives or invents; an inventor, deviser. Obsolete.

With adverbs, forming compound agent nouns corresponding to adverbial combinations of find, as finder-out, †finder-up.

An author or designer of something; a plotter, a schemer. Frequently (esp. in later use) with figurative allusion to senses 1a or 2.

With adverbs, forming compound agent nouns corresponding to adverbial combinations of find, as finder-out, †finder-up.

One who devises or produces something new (as an instrument, an art, etc.) by original contrivance; the originator of a previously unknown method…

A person who devises or originates something in the mind.

A person who imagines or conceives of something; an inventor. Now archaic and rare.

A maker of conceits (conceit, n. 9a); a craftsman. Obsolete.

An inventor, a concocter. Obsolete.

a creative, inventive, or ingenious man, a man who comes up with ideas.

= ideas man n. at idea, n. compounds 3.