Worldbuilder
noun
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
Noun
- 1 One who constructs a world, especially a convincing fictional world for literature etc.
"Many mistake my approach as hostile to the sacrosanct memory of J. R. R. Tolkien, undoubtedly one of the greatest worldbuilders of the 20th century and indirectly the father of both a literary and a gaming genre."
Example
More examples"Many mistake my approach as hostile to the sacrosanct memory of J. R. R. Tolkien, undoubtedly one of the greatest worldbuilders of the 20th century and indirectly the father of both a literary and a gaming genre."
Etymology
From world + builder.
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