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Webster 1913 Edition
Creator
Cre-a′tor
(krē̍-ā′tẽr)
, Noun.
[L.
creator
: cf. F. créateur
.] One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being.
To sin’s rebuke and my
Creater's
praise. Shakespeare
The poets and artists of Greece, who are at the same time its prophets, the
creators
of its divinities, and the revealers of its theological beliefs. Caird.
Webster 1828 Edition
Creator
CREATOR
,Noun.
1.
The being or person that creates.Remember thy creator in the days of thy youth. Ecclesiastes 12.
2.
The thing that creates, produces or causes.Definition 2024
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See also: Creator
English
Alternative forms
- creatour (obsolete)
Noun
creator (plural creators)
- Something or someone which creates or makes something.
- Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
- (religion) The deity that created the world.
Usage notes
- Usually capitalized as Creator when referring to a specific deity.
Related terms
Translations
one who creates
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the deity that created the world
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Anagrams
Latin
Etymology
From creō (“I create, make”) + -ātor.
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /kreˈaː.tor/, [krɛˈaː.tɔr]
Noun
creātor m (genitive creātōris); third declension
- a creator, author, founder
- a person who elects or appoints to an office
- the creator of the world; God
Inflection
Third declension.
| Case | Singular | Plural |
|---|---|---|
| nominative | creātor | creātōrēs |
| genitive | creātōris | creātōrum |
| dative | creātōrī | creātōribus |
| accusative | creātōrem | creātōrēs |
| ablative | creātōre | creātōribus |
| vocative | creātor | creātōrēs |
Derived terms
- creātrīx
Related terms
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Descendants
Verb
creātor
- second-person singular future passive imperative of creō
- third-person singular future passive imperative of creō
References
- creator in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- creator in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
- CREATOR in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition, 1883–1887)
- Félix Gaffiot (1934), “creator”, in Dictionnaire Illustré Latin-Français, Paris: Hachette.
- Meissner, Carl; Auden, Henry William (1894) Latin Phrase-Book, London: Macmillan and Co.
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(ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
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(ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum