creator

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 (“I create”) + agent suffix -or. Mostly displaced native Old English wyrhta (modern English wright).

noun

  1. Something or someone which creates or makes something.
    Kenneth E. Iverson was the creator of APL.
  2. (social media) Ellipsis of content creator, someone who regularly produces and publishes content on social media, especially of a monetizable nature.
    Coordinate term: influencer
    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. 2021-05-04, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times, →ISSN
    The video shows TikTok creator Harrison Pawluk approaching the woman, Maree, in a public shopping centre. 2022-07-14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian
  3. (religion, sometimes capitalized) The deity that created the world.
  4. (sports) 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. 2019-07-03, Andrea Canales, Jonathan Tannenwald, “Pulisic, McKennie show plenty of promise for U.S. in Gold Cup”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer
    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. 2022-10-13, Richard Jolly, “Record-breaker Mohamed Salah delivers timely reminder of his greatest strength ahead of clash with champions”, in Independent.ie
    As such, when Doncic was on the court, Brunson was a secondary facilitator and more of a finisher than a creator. 2022-10-19, Andre Snellings, “Fantasy basketball: Why Jalen Brunson can be even better in New York”, in ESPN

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