Clues for the word "INVENTION"
We've had 12 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 11 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on December 02, 2025.
Definition of invention
- n. - The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.
- n. - That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention.
- n. - Thought; idea.
- n. - A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
- n. - The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
- n. - The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.
Referring Clues
- Novel device?
- Patent candidate
- Zappa's Mothers of ___
- Lie in hole with one attached
- A child of necessity is given to falsehood
- Of necessity, a child produces a lie
- Necessity delivers a novel idea
- Fashionable outlet I love with name for originality
- See 6
- Invite non-renewable development
- Bubble gum in 1906, e.g.
- Creation
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - December 02, 2025
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - September 12, 2024
- Guardian Everyman - February 14, 2016
- Chicago Reader - December 09, 2011
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - June 08, 2011
- Rock n Roll Crossword - June 05, 2011
- Guardian Cryptic - April 28, 2010
- Guardian Cryptic - April 12, 2010
- Guardian Quiptic - April 12, 2010
- Guardian Prize - September 22, 2007
- Guardian Cryptic - September 01, 1999