Creator

//kɹiˈeɪtɚ// name, noun

name, noun ·Moderate ·High school level

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    Something or someone which creates or makes something.

    "Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL."

  2. 2
    a person who grows or makes or invents things wordnet
  3. 3
    Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "creator economy"

  4. 4
    The deity that created the world. capitalized, sometimes
  5. 5
    A player who creates opportunities for their team to score goals; a playmaker.

    "Hernández is not a creator and suffered from a lack of service in previous seasons."

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A god who created the Universe; God.

    "Who changed the trueth of God into a lye, and worshipped and serued the creature more then the Creatour, who is blessed for euer. Amen."

Synonyms

All synonyms
makeractoragentall-makerancestorsapprentice

Example

More examples

"Man is not the creature, so much as he is the creator, of circumstances."

Etymology

From Middle English creatour, from Old French creator, creatur, creatour, from Latin creātor, agent noun from perfect passive participle creātus (“created”), from verb creō (“to create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright).

Related phrases

job creatormade universemaking thingsmaking worldsupreme being

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