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

1 sense of thomas alva edison

Sense 1
Edison, Thomas Edison, Thomas Alva Edison -- (United States inventor; inventions included the phonograph and incandescent electric light and the microphone and the Kinetoscope (1847-1931))
       INSTANCE OF=> inventor, discoverer, artificer -- (someone who is the first to think of or make something)