INVENT meaning: 1. to design and/or create something that has never been made before: 2. to create a reason…. Learn more.

The meaning of INVENT is to produce (something, such as a useful device or process) for the first time through the use of the imagination or of ingenious thinking and experiment.

Definition of invent verb in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.

If you invent something, you are the first person to think of it or make it. He invented the first electric clock.

1. to originate as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent a better mousetrap. 2. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story. 3. to make up …

There are seven meanings listed in OED's entry for the verb invent, five of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.

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Invent (verb): To create or design something that has never existed before. Typically used in the context of mechanical or technological advancements, but can also apply to ideas or processes.

to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story.

To invent is to create for the first time or make up. If you tell your friends that you invented the electric guitar, you are inventing a pretty unbelievable story about your past.