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Added 1 October 2026

creator

/kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/ noun

In Latin: creātor, creātrīx, conditor Wiktionary

noun Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA). Pronunciation from Wiktionary, via Kaikki.org. More about creator at Wordnik → Where our words come from →

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
The deity that created the world.

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).

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