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creator

//kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Note for creator

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Forms

Plural
creators

Definitions

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

    • Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
  2. 2.The deity that created the world.

  3. 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. 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

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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).

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