CO-DISCOVERER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does co-discoverer mean? 

• CO-DISCOVERER (noun)
  The noun CO-DISCOVERER has 1 sense:

1. someone who is the first of two or more people to discover something

  Familiarity information: CO-DISCOVERER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CO-DISCOVERER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who is the first of two or more people to discover something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("co-discoverer" is a kind of...):

discoverer; finder; spotter (someone who is the first to observe something)

 Context examples 

While many have shown that sleep helps the brain store new memories, others, including Francis Crick, the co-discoverer of the DNA double helix, have raised the possibility that sleep – in particular REM sleep – may be a time when the brain actively eliminates or forgets excess information.

(The brain may actively forget during dream sleep, National Institutes of Health)