originator
/əˈrɪdʒɪneɪtə
/noun
A person who creates or initiates something: Wegener was the originator of the theory of continental drift...
- One of the most useful tools for looking at a belief system is to look at the founder or originator.
- If Edison was the originator of the fiction film, they were the fathers of documentary.
- The originators of these information products are solely responsible for their content.
Synonyms
inventor, creator, architect, author, prime mover, father, mother, maker, initiator, innovator, founder, pioneer, mastermind, discoverer, establisher, developer, designer
formal neoteric
literary begetter
- demiurgic
- demiurgical
- demo
- demob
- demob-happy
- demobilise
- demobilization
- demobilize
- demob suit
- democracy
- democracy deficit
- Democracy Wall
- democrat
- democratic
- democratical
- democratically
- democratic centralism
- democratic deficit
- Democratic Party
- Democratic Republican Party
- democratic socialism
- democratic socialist
- democratisation
- democratise
- democratism