Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun eli_whitney

1 sense of eli whitney

Sense 1
Whitney, Eli Whitney -- (United States inventor of the mechanical cotton gin (1765-1825))
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)
       INSTANCE OF=> manufacturer, producer -- (someone who manufactures something)