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creator

nouncommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː//
  • United Kingdom/[kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈeɪ̯tʰəː]/
  • //kɹiːˈæ̝ɪ̯təː//
  • /[kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈæ̝ɪ̯tʰəː]/

Something or someone which creates or makes something.

noun

  1. 1

    Something or someone which creates or makes something.

    Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.

  2. 2

    The deity that created the world.

  3. 3

    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.

    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.

    As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator.

  4. 4

    Variant of content creatorEllipsis 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.

    The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre.

    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.

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).

Forms

plural
creators
The neighbouring pagesAlphabetical order follows the rules of the language, not byte values: an accent decides only between two otherwise identical words, and Spanish files Ñ as a letter of its own.

Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).