CREATOR

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• CREATOR (noun)
  The noun CREATOR has 2 senses:

1. terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

2. a person who grows or makes or invents things

  Familiarity information: CREATOR used as a noun is rare.

• CREATOR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

Almighty; Creator; Divine; God Almighty; Godhead; Jehovah; Lord; Maker

Instance hypernyms:

God; Supreme Being (the supernatural being conceived as the perfect and omnipotent and omniscient originator and ruler of the universe; the object of worship in monotheistic religions)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Creator"):

Blessed Trinity; Holy Trinity; Sacred Trinity; Trinity (the union of the Father and Son and Holy Ghost in one Godhead)

hypostasis; hypostasis of Christ (any of the three persons of the Godhead constituting the Trinity especially the person of Christ in which divine and human natures are united)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A person who grows or makes or invents things

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("creator" is a kind of...):

individual; mortal; person; somebody; someone; soul (a human being)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "creator"):

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)

choreographer (someone who creates new dances)

clothes designer; couturier; designer; fashion designer (someone who designs clothing)

crafter; craftsman (a creator of great skill in the manual arts)

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))

Derivation:

create (pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity)

 Context examples 

I learned from your papers that you were my father, my creator; and to whom could I apply with more fitness than to him who had given me life?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

They are the creator of staging criteria to describe the extent and spread of gynecologic malignancies.

(Federation of Gynecology and Obstetrics, NCI Thesaurus)

According to its creators, the new technology could extend eggs' lifespan from 30 days to 50, or even 60, days, depending on storage conditions.

(Protective bio-shell could extend egg shelf life, SciDev.Net)

Doubtless, a creator of a Cosmos could have devised a better method; but creatures of this particular Cosmos must put up with this particular method.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

If you are a producer or editor, you will be given an opportunity to share ideas with the creator to shape the show or manuscript you are working on.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

The team 3-D printed the prototype, allowing the creators to rapidly develop a design that worked.

(New Invention Detects Cancer in Seconds, VOA/Elizabeth Lee)

One thousand Aves and as many Credos, said standing with arms outstretched before the shrine of the Virgin, may help thee to remember that the Creator hath given us two ears and but one mouth, as a token that there is twice the work for the one as for the other.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We are, and must be, one and all, burdened with faults in this world: but the time will soon come when, I trust, we shall put them off in putting off our corruptible bodies; when debasement and sin will fall from us with this cumbrous frame of flesh, and only the spark of the spirit will remain,—the impalpable principle of light and thought, pure as when it left the Creator to inspire the creature: whence it came it will return; perhaps again to be communicated to some being higher than man—perhaps to pass through gradations of glory, from the pale human soul to brighten to the seraph!

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

You, my creator, would tear me to pieces and triumph; remember that, and tell me why I should pity man more than he pities me?

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“The biofilm may also be used to coat other food packages, providing greater mechanical resistance and protection against microorganisms,” Luiz Fernando Gorup said, a chemist also at UFGD and biofilm co-creator.

(Protective bio-shell could extend egg shelf life, SciDev.Net)