Other forms: makers
A maker is somebody or something that makes things. A furniture maker, decision maker, the maker's mark.
It combines freely — coffee maker, policy maker, troublemaker — and the pattern is one of the most productive in English. The maker movement names a revival of building things by hand with modern tools. Note that meet your maker means to die.
1nounmakerSomebody or something that makes things.
“If the toaster breaks, send it back to the maker.”
maker is a producer.
Make plus -er, from Old English macian. Match and mason come from a related making.
Middle English
maker
English, today
maker
From Middle English maker. From Middle English maker, makere, equivalent to make + -er. Compare Scots makar, stq Moaker, West Frisian makker, Dutch maker, German Macher, Danish -mager, Swedish -makare. a doublet of makar.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA