3. discover Archaic. to make known; reveal; disclose.
Etymology: (1250–1300; ME < AF discoverir, OF descovrir < LL discooperīre)
Definition of 'discover'
Princeton's WordNet
1. (verb)detect, observe, find, discover, notice discover or determine the existence, presence, or fact of "She detected high levels of lead in her drinking water"; "We found traces of lead in the paint"
2. (verb)learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally "I learned that she has two grown-up children"; "I see that you have been promoted"
3. (verb)discover, find make a discovery, make a new finding "Roentgen discovered X-rays"; "Physicists believe they found a new elementary particle"
4. (verb)discover, find make a discovery "She found that he had lied to her"; "The story is false, so far as I can discover"
5. (verb)fall upon, strike, come upon, light upon, chance upon, come across, chance on, happen upon, attain, discover find unexpectedly "the archeologists chanced upon an old tomb"; "she struck a goldmine"; "The hikers finally struck the main path to the lake"
6. (verb)unwrap, disclose, let on, bring out, reveal, discover, expose, divulge, break, give away, let out make known to the publicinformation that was previously known only to a few people or that was meant to be kept a secret "The auction house would not disclose the price at which the van Gogh had sold"; "The actress won't reveal how old she is"; "bring out the truth"; "he broke the news to her"; "unwrap the evidence in the murder case"
7. (verb)discover see for the first time; make a discovery "Who discovered the North Pole?"
8. (verb)identify, discover, key, key out, distinguish, describe, name identify as in botany or biology, for example
1. (verb)discover to find sb or sth Who discovered the body?
2. discover to learn sth; = find out We suddenly discovered (that) we were not alone.
Definition of 'discover'
Webster Dictionary
1. (verb)discover to uncover
2. (verb)discover to disclose; to lay open to view; to make visible; to reveal; to make known; to show (what has been secret, unseen, or unknown)
3. (verb)discover to obtain for the firsttimesight or knowledge of, as of a thing existing already, but not perceived or known; to find; to ascertain; to espy; to detect
4. (verb)discover to manifest without design; to show
Definitions of discover 
Afrikaans: ontdek, uitvind
Arabic: يَكْتَشِف
Bulgarian: откривам
Brazilian: descobrir
Czech: objevit
German: entdecken
Danish: opdage
Greek: ανακαλύπτω κατά τύχη
Spanish: descubrir
Estonian: avastama
Farsi: کشف کردن
Finnish: keksiä
French: découvrir
Hebrew: לְגָלוֹת
Hindi: खोजना करना
Croatian: otkriti
Hungarian: felfedez
Indonesian: menemukan
Icelandic: uppgötva
Italian: scoprire
Japanese: 発見する
Korean: 발견하다
Lithuanian: atrasti
Latvian: atklāt
Malay: menemui
Dutch: ontdekken
Norwegian: oppdage
Polish: odkrywać
Persian: کشف کردن
Pashto: کشف
Portuguese: descobrir
Romanian: a descoperi
Russian: открывать
Slovak: objaviť
Slovenian: odkriti
Serbian: otkriti
Swedish: upptäcka
Thai: พบโดยบังเอิญ
Turkish: keşfetmek, bulmak
Taiwanese: 發現
Ukrainian: відкривати; довідуватися
Urdu: اتفاقا کوئی نئی چیز ڈھونڈ
Vietnamese: khám phá
Chinese: 发现
