creator
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /kɹiˈeɪtɚ/
ipa: /kɹiːˈeɪtə/
rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
Forms: form: creators
form: creatour
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).
Senses: examples: text: Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
glosses: Something or someone which creates or makes something.
examples: text: creator economy
text: 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.
ref: 2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN:
text: The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre.
ref: 2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian:
text: She wore crimson leggings, a stack of candy-colored beaded necklaces, and a black sweatshirt that read SELF-EMPLOYED because she is a full-time influencer — or “creator,” as it is more polite to say in this part of town.
ref: 2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York, archived from the original on 19 May 2025:
text: 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.
ref: 2025 September 11, Amelia Gentleman, “Boom times and total burnout: three days at Europe’s biggest pornography conference”, in The Guardian, →ISSN:
coordinate_terms: influencer
qualifier: social media
glosses: Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.
topics: lifestyle
religion
glosses: The deity that created the world.
examples: text: Hernández is not a creator and suffered from a lack of service in previous seasons.
ref: 2019 July 3, Andrea Canales, Jonathan Tannenwald, “Pulisic, McKennie show plenty of promise for U.S. in Gold Cup”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer:
text: 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.
ref: 2022 October 13, Richard Jolly, “Record-breaker Mohamed Salah delivers timely reminder of his greatest strength ahead of clash with champions”, in Independent.ie:
text: As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator.
ref: 2022 October 19, Andre Snellings, “Fantasy basketball: Why Jalen Brunson can be even better in New York”, in ESPN:
topics: hobbies
lifestyle
sports
glosses: A player who creates opportunities for their team to score goals; a playmaker.
Derived terms: anticreator
cocreator
creatorhood
creatorless
creatorlike
creatorship
job creator
miscreator
noncreator
subcreator
Related terms: create
creation
creational
creationally
creationarily
creationary
creative
creatrix
creature
procreate
recreate
recreation
maker