Singer, Isaac Merrit Syllabification: (Sing·er, Isaac Merrit)Pronunciation: /ˈsiNGər/Definition of Singer, Isaac Merrit (1811–75), US inventor. He designed and built the first commercially successful sewing machine in 1852. Singer’s company became the world’s largest sewing machine manufacturer. Singer, Isaac Merrit in other Oxford dictionaries Definition of Singer, Isaac Merrit in the British & World English dictionary