FINDER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does finder mean? 

• FINDER (noun)
  The noun FINDER has 3 senses:

1. someone who comes upon something after searching

2. someone who is the first to observe something

3. optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest

  Familiarity information: FINDER used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• FINDER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who comes upon something after searching

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("finder" is a kind of...):

quester; searcher; seeker (someone making a search or inquiry)

Derivation:

find (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Someone who is the first to observe something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

discoverer; finder; spotter

Hypernyms ("finder" is a kind of...):

beholder; observer; perceiver; percipient (a person who becomes aware (of things or events) through the senses)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "finder"):

co-discoverer (someone who is the first of two or more people to discover something)

Derivation:

find (perceive or be contemporaneous with)

find (discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of)

find (come upon, as if by accident; meet with)

find (come upon after searching; find the location of something that was missed or lost)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Optical device that helps a user to find the target of interest

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

finder; view finder; viewfinder

Hypernyms ("finder" is a kind of...):

optical device (a device for producing or controlling light)

Holonyms ("finder" is a part of...):

camera; photographic camera (equipment for taking photographs (usually consisting of a lightproof box with a lens at one end and light-sensitive film at the other))

gun-sight; gunsight (a sight used for aiming a gun)

scope; telescope (a magnifier of images of distant objects)

 Context examples 

Its finder has carried it off, therefore, to fulfil the ultimate destiny of a goose, while I continue to retain the hat of the unknown gentleman who lost his Christmas dinner.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)