creator
[kree-ey-ter]
Origin of creator
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Contemporary Examples
Playful and gory, the cartoonish paintings of Dee Dee Ramone, bassist for The Ramones, are every bit as shocking as their creator.
‘All Good Cretins Go to Heaven’: Dee Dee Ramone’s Twisted Punk PaintingsMelissa Leon
December 15, 2014
The creator Armando Iannucci adapted the concept for an American audience in Veep.
Creator Takeuchi has described the handsome, older (than Sailor Moon) boy as her favorite character in the series.
‘Sailor Moon’ Is an Oasis for Superheroes Who Can Save the Universe in HeelsRich Goldstein
November 26, 2014
Creator Rod Serling was compelled by the need “not to just entertain but to enlighten.”
The protagonist is the creator of Wonder Woman, William Moulton Marston, born in 1893.
Wonder Woman’s Creation Story Is Wilder Than You Could Ever ImagineTom Arnold-Forster
November 3, 2014
Historical Examples
Evidently the time for classifying the creator of Hamlet is at hand.
The Man ShakespeareFrank Harris
Its power seems to be on the same plane as that of the Creator.
The DreamEmile Zola
One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and axes.
The Devil's DictionaryAmbrose Bierce
A girl had her little reticences, even with herself, even with her Creator.
The Incomplete AmoristE. Nesbit
His self-mastery is the gift of his creator, and oppression, only, can take it away.
Cleveland Past and PresentMaurice Joblin
creator
- a person or thing that creates; originator
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Creator
- the Creator an epithet of God
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Word Origin and History for creator
n.
c.1300, "Supreme Being," from Anglo-French creatour, Old French creator (12c., academic and liturgical, alongside popular creere, Modern French créateur), from Latin creator "creator, author, founder," from creatus (see create). Translated in Old English as scieppend (from verb scieppan; see shape (v.)). Not generally capitalized until KJV. General meaning "one who creates" is from 1570s.
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