Get the Word of the Day from AllTheAnswers and learn something new every day http://www.alltheanswers.com <i>verb</i> <br><br><b>1 </b>to be the first person to find something or someone. <br><br><b>2 </b>to find by chance, especially for the first time. <br><br><b>3 </b>to learn of or become aware of for the first time. <b>Synonyms</b>: find out, ascertain, detect, uncover, unearth, discern, recognize, distinguish, determine, observe. • <b>discoverable</b> <i>adj</i> • <b>discoverer</b> <i>noun</i> someone who makes a discovery, especially of something not known before. <br><br><i>Etymology </i><i>16c in modern sense; 13c, meaning ‘to reveal': from French <i>descouvrir</i>. </i> http://www.alltheanswers.com/search/?searchfield=discover Wed, 8 Feb 2012 02:30:00 +0200