CREATOR

Pronunciation (US): (GB):

I. (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

Synonyms:

Almighty; Creator; Divine; God Almighty; Godhead; Jehovah; Lord; Maker

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

God; Supreme Being (the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Creator"):

Blessed Trinity; Holy Trinity; Sacred Trinity; Trinity (the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead)

hypostasis; hypostasis of Christ (any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who grows or makes or invents things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("creator" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creator"):

architect; designer (someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings))

artist; creative person (a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination)

builder (a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country)

choreographer (someone who creates new dances)

clothes designer; couturier; designer; fashion designer (someone who designs clothing)

crafter; craftsman (a creator of great skill in the manual arts)

developer (someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use))

fantasist (a creator of fantasies)

farmer; granger; husbandman; sodbuster (a person who operates a farm)

artificer; discoverer; inventor (someone who is the first to think of or make something)

maker; shaper (a person who makes things)

modeler; modeller (a person who creates models)

conceiver; mastermind; originator (someone who creates new things)

producer (someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work))

Derivation:

create (pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity)

Credits

Context examples:

Broadcasting and publishing projects will go well for you, so if you are not the creator of the story, you might be the subject of a print or broadcast story.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

First he had attacked the literature of mysticism, and had done it exceeding well; and, next, he had successfully supplied the very literature he had exposited, thus proving himself to be that rare genius, a critic and a creator in one.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Well, it’s a game changer because I was doing a case the other day with a surgeon, and we had to wait an additional two hours because the current method takes that long, said Aydin Zahedivash, medical student and co-creator of the MasSpec Pen.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

A new species would bless me as its creator and source; many happy and excellent natures would owe their being to me.