Usually means: Create something new and original.
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We found 33 dictionaries that define the word invent:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. invent: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. invent: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. invent: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. invent: Collins English Dictionary
  5. invent: Vocabulary.com
  6. Invent, invent, invent: Wordnik
  7. invent: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. invent: Wiktionary
  9. invent: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. invent: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. invent: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. invent: Dictionary.com
  13. invent: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Invent: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Invent: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. invent: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. invent: Rhymezone
  18. invent: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. invent: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. invent: Free Dictionary
  21. invent: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. invent: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. invent: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. invent(e): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. invent: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. invent: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. INVENT: Acronym Finder
  2. invent: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To design a new process or mechanism.
verb:  To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
verb:  (obsolete) To come upon; to find; to discover.

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