creator
noun
- in archival science, the entity (person, organization, etc.) that caused a record or collection to be produced or gathered
- person who does creative work
Wiktionary
Pronunciation: /kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/ / [kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈeɪ̯tʰəː] / /kɹiːˈæ̝ɪ̯təː/
name
Etymology: From a proprialization of the common noun, creator.
- 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.”
“"Whether a child is born in the urban sprawl of Detroit or the windswept plains of Nebraska, they look up at the same night sky, they fill their heart with the same dreams, and they are infused with the breath of life by the same almighty Creator."”
noun
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).
- Something or someone which creates or makes something.
“Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.”
- Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.
“creator economy”
“People have viewed his videos more than 13 billion times. And last year as the pandemic raged, he became the most-subscribed YouTube creator in the country.”
- The deity that created the world.
- 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.”
“There have been times this season when it seemed Liverpool were trying to reinvent Salah, the scorer supreme, as a creator and this was a sudden reminder of his greatest strength.”