Other forms: creators
The creator is the person who made something. The creator of the series, its creator, credit the creator.
The word has taken on a new job online, where a creator is somebody who makes things for an audience and the creator economy is the business built on that. Capitalised, the Creator means God. The Latin creare means to make or bring forth.
1nouncreatorThe person who made something.
“The creator of the cartoon was surprised by how popular it became.”
creator is a maker.
Latin creator comes from creare, to make or bring forth.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱer- (grow)
Latin
creātor
Old French
creator
Middle English
creatour
English, today
creator
Built from
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 wyrhta (modern wright).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA