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cre·a·tor

 (krē-ā′tər)
n.
1. One that creates: the creator of a new television series; a born creator of trouble.
2. Creator God. Used with the.
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creator

(kriːˈeɪtə)
n
a person or thing that creates; originator
creˈatorˌship n
creˈatress, creˈatrix fem n

Creator

(kriːˈeɪtə)
n
(Theology) the Creator an epithet of God
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cre•a•tor

(kriˈeɪ tər)

n.
1. a person or thing that creates.
2. the Creator, God.
[1250–1300; Middle English < Latin]
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ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend:
Noun1.creator - terms referring to the Judeo-Christian GodCreator - terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
Blessed Trinity, Holy Trinity, Sacred Trinity, Trinity - the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead
hypostasis of Christ, hypostasis - any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united
2.creator - a person who grows or makes or invents things
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
architect, designer - someone who creates plans to be used in making something (such as buildings)
artist, creative person - a person whose creative work shows sensitivity and imagination
builder - a person who creates a business or who organizes and develops a country; "empire builder"
choreographer - someone who creates new dances
clothes designer, couturier, fashion designer, designer - someone who designs clothing
crafter, craftsman - a creator of great skill in the manual arts; "the jewelry was made by internationally famous craftsmen"
developer - someone who develops real estate (especially someone who prepares a site for residential or commercial use)
fantasist - a creator of fantasies
farmer, granger, husbandman, sodbuster - a person who operates a farm
artificer, discoverer, inventor - someone who is the first to think of or make something
maker, shaper - a person who makes things
modeler, modeller - a person who creates models
conceiver, mastermind, originator - someone who creates new things
producer - someone who finds financing for and supervises the making and presentation of a show (play or film or program or similar work)
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creator

noun
1. maker, father, author, framer, designer, architect, inventor, originator, initiator, begetter George Lucas, the creator of the Star Wars films
2. (usually with cap.) God, Maker This was the first object placed in the heavens by the Creator.
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creator

noun
1. One that creates, founds, or originates:
2. A person instrumental in the growth of something, especially in its early stages:
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Translations
خالِق، مُبْدِع
tvůrcestvořitel
skaber
luoja
stvarateljstvarateljicatvorac
skapari, höfundur
creator
tvorca
ustvarjalec
skapare

creator

[krɪˈeɪtəʳ] Ncreador(a) m/f
the Creator (Rel) → el Creador
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creator

[kriˈeɪtər] ncréateur/trice m/f
the creator of → le créateur de(la)/trice
the Creator (= God) → le Créateur
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creator

nSchöpfer(in) m(f)
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creator

[krɪˈeɪtəʳ] ncreatore/trice
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create

(kriˈeit) verb
1. to cause to exist; to make. How was the earth created?; The circus created great excitement.
2. to give (a rank etc to). Sir John was created a knight in 1958.
creˈation noun
1. the act of creating. the creation of the world.
2. something created. The dress designer is showing his latest creations.
creˈative (-tiv) adjective
having or showing the power and imagination to create. a creative dress-designer.
creˈatively adverb
creˈativeness noun
ˌcreaˈtivity (kriːə-) noun
creˈator noun
a person who creates.
the Creator
God.
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References in classic literature ?
Him who breaketh up their tables of values, the breaker, the lawbreaker:--he, however, is the creator.
Yet you, my creator, detest and spurn me, thy creature, to whom thou art bound by ties only dissoluble by the annihilation of one of us.
But not only is he a darling and alive and credible but his creator has also managed to invest everybody else in the book with the same kind of life.
Remember thy creator that thy days be long in the land."
"And when we get back from that expedition," said the indefatigable narrator, "they'll decorate us with the Southern Cross that shines up there in the Creator's button-hole."
"For, if we deem it otherwise, do we not hereby say that the Heavenly Father, the creator of all flesh, hath lightly recognised a deed of sin, and made of no account the distinction between unhallowed lust and holy love?
This is so, and must always be so; and the purposes of the Divine Creator are at once good and inscrutable, as also is Fate, which is one with Him.
for they had placed themselves beyond the pale of humanity, by crossing the limits imposed by the Creator on his earthly creatures.
I was but a speck among a myriad of other things produced by the hand of the Creator, and all to conduce to his own wise ends and unequaled glory.
It was the tire of a brilliant wheel, an asteria enclosing the disc with its silver tentacles, an enormous eye filled with flames, a glory carved for Pluto's head, a star launched by the Creator's hand, and crushed against the face of the moon!
My design, when I went abroad, was to divert myself by seeing the wondrous variety of prospects, beasts, birds, fishes, insects, and vegetables, with which God has been pleased to enrich the several parts of this globe; a variety which, as it must give great pleasure to a contemplative beholder, so doth it admirably display the power, and wisdom, and goodness of the Creator. Indeed, to say the truth, there is but one work in his whole creation that doth him any dishonour, and with that I have long since avoided holding any conversation."
"What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?" the priest went on in the rapid customary jargon.