creator

Something or someone which creates or makes something.

Noun

  1. Something or someone which creates or makes something.
    • Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
  2. 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. - 2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants...
    • The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre. - 2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The...

    Coordinate Terms: influencer

  3. The deity that created the world.
  4. 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. - 2019 July 3, Andrea Canales, Jonathan Tannenwald, “Pulisic, McKennie show plenty of promise for U.S. in Gold Cup”, in The...
    • 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. - 2022 October 13, Richard Jolly,...
    • As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator. - 2022 October 19, Andre Snellings, “Fantasy basketball: Why Jalen Brunson can be even better in New...

Origin

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).

Forms

creators creatour

Related

create creation creational creationally creationarily creationary creative creatrix creature procreate recreate recreation maker

Derived

anticreator cocreator creatorhood creatorless creatorlike creatorship job creator miscreator noncreator subcreator