• creatour (obsolete)

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).

• (non-rhotic)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kɹiːˈeɪ̯təː/, [kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈeɪ̯tʰəː]

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  • (General Australian, New Zealand)
    • (without t-flapping) IPA^(key): /kɹiːˈæ̝ɪ̯təː/, [kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈæ̝ɪ̯tʰəː]
    • (t-flapping) IPA^(key): /kɹiːˈæ̝ɪ̯ɾəː/, [kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈæ̝ɪ̯ɾəː]
• (rhotic)
  • (General American, Standard Canadian)
    • (without t-flapping) IPA^(key): /kɹiˈeɪtɚ/, [kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈeɪ̯tʰɚ] ~ [kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈeɪ̯tʰɹ̩]
    • (t-flapping) IPA^(key): /kɹiˈeɪɾɚ/, [kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈeɪ̯ɾɚ] ~ [kʰɹʷɪi̯ˈeɪ̯ɾɹ̩]

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• Rhymes: -eɪtə(ɹ)
• Hyphenation: cre‧a‧tor

creator (plural creators)

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

   • 2021 May 4, Taylor Lorenz, “Mr. Beast, YouTube Star, Wants to Take Over the Business World”, in The New York Times‎^[1], →ISSN:

     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.

   • 2022 July 14, Rafqa Touma, “Melbourne woman ‘dehumanised’ by viral TikTok filmed without her consent”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

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

   • 2025 May 5, Brock Colyar, “It Must Be Nice to Be a West Village Girl”, in New York‎^[3], archived from the original on 19 May 2025:

     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.

   • 2025 September 11, Amelia Gentleman, “Boom times and total burnout: three days at Europe’s biggest pornography conference”, in The Guardian‎^[4], →ISSN:

     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.

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.
   • 2019 July 3, Andrea Canales, Jonathan Tannenwald, “Pulisic, McKennie show plenty of promise for U.S. in Gold Cup”, in The Philadelphia Inquirer‎^[5]:

     Hernández is not a creator and suffered from a lack of service in previous seasons.

   • 2022 October 13, Richard Jolly, “Record-breaker Mohamed Salah delivers timely reminder of his greatest strength ahead of clash with champions”, in Independent.ie‎^[6]:

     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 October 19, Andre Snellings, “Fantasy basketball: Why Jalen Brunson can be even better in New York”, in ESPN‎^[7]:

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

• Usually capitalized as Creator when referring to a specific deity. creator is usually used of female creators as well, the feminine forms are rarer.
• Due to the prevalence of sense 2, the use of sense 1 can sometimes be seen as denigrating, for example where specific terms such as author or director could be used instead.

• maker

• Carreto, Cerrato, acroter, reactor

From creō (“to create, make”) +‎ -tor. Compare Sanskrit कर्तृ (kartṛ).

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kreˈaː.tɔr]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kreˈaː.tor]

creātor m (genitive creātōris, feminine creātrīx); third declension

1. a creator, author, founder

   Synonyms: conditor, auctor

2. a person who elects or appoints to an office
3. the creator of the world; God

Third-declension noun.

• creātrīx

creātor

1. second/third-person singular future passive imperative of creō

• “creator”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879), A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• “creator”, in Charlton T. Lewis (1891), An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• "creator", in Charles du Fresne du Cange, Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)
• “creator”, in Gaffiot, Félix (1934), Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.
• Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894), Latin Phrase-Book‎^[8], London: Macmillan and Co.
  • (ambiguous) God is the Creator of the world: deus est mundi procreator (not creator), aedificator, fabricator, opifex rerum
    
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “creator”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 2: C Q K, page 1297

creator oblique singular, m (oblique plural creators, nominative singular creators, nominative plural creator)

1. alternative form of creatur

• креатор (creator) — post-1930s Cyrillic spelling

From French créateur, from Latin creātor. Equivalent to crea +‎ -tor.

• IPA^(key): /kre.aˈtor/
• Rhymes: -or
• Hyphenation: cre‧a‧tor

creator m or n (feminine singular creatoare, masculine plural creatori, feminine/neuter plural creatoare)

1. creative

creator m (plural creatori)

1. creator (person who creates, who founds something)
2. (religion) God

• “creator”, in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language) (in Romanian), 2004–2026

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