progenitornoun [ C ]
uk/prəʊˈdʒen.ɪ.tər/us/proʊˈdʒen.ə.t̬ɚ/formala person who first thinks of something and causes it to happen:
Marx was the progenitor of communism.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Inventing, designing and innovation
- architect
- artificer
- authoring
- blueprint
- cad
- coin
- computer-aided design
- engineer
- ergonomics
- father
- founding father
- guinea pig
- innovate
- mint
- pioneer
- research
- research and development
- robotics
- tech
- technical
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