creator
//kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː//
Forms
- Plural
- creators
Definitions
1.Something or someone which creates or makes something.
- Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
2.The deity that created the world.
3.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.
- As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator.
- 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.
4.Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.
- The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre.
- 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.
- Her days are spent sending messages to her fans, who pay $30 a month to see her explicit videos and chat to her online; she aims to have sex with another creator (a collaboration) about once a week.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3999
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
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).