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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun One that creates.
  • noun God. Used with the.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who creates, in any sense of that word, or brings something into existence; especially, one who produces something out of nothing; specifically (with a capital letter), God considered as having brought the universe into existence out of nothing.
  • noun Figuratively, that by means of which anything is brought into existence; a creative medium or agency: as, steam is the creator of modern industrial progress.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who creates, produces, or constitutes. Specifically, the Supreme Being.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun Something or someone which creates or makes something.
  • noun religion The deity that created the world.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God
  • noun a person who grows or makes or invents things

Etymologies

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From Latin creator, agent noun from perfect passive participle creatus ("created"), from verb creare ("create") + agent suffix -or.

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