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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
originator
noun
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Alberti was the originator of the violin's design even though Stradivari made it famous.
▪ Stokely Carmichael was probably the originator of the term "black power."
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Communications services transfer the information from the originator to the recipient.
▪ He excelled in music and is one of the originators of Gregorian chants and the liturgical sequences.
▪ However, not every idea originator has the know-how, the drive, and the aggressiveness to do so.
▪ It contains a major element of truth, even if it is not precisely the truth which its originators intended.
▪ The presidential decision failed to satisfy either the originators of the law or its main critics.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Originator

Originator \O*rig"i*na`tor\, n. One who originates.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
originator

1818, agent noun in Latin form from originate.

Wiktionary
originator

n. Someone who originates, creates or founds something.

WordNet
originator

n. someone who creates new things [syn: conceiver, mastermind]

Wikipedia
Originator
Originator (novel)

Originator is a pair of young adult dystopian novels by Claire Carmichael that was published between 1998 and 1999. The first book, Originator, was published on September 1, 1998 by Random House. The second, Fabricant, was released the following year on October 1.

Usage examples of "originator".

In arguing that feelings should guide man on how to live, Rousseau may be seen as one of the originators of the romantic movement.

Thus he was the real originator in England of the great system of appropriate hymnology, which has become almost universal, and many of his own are among the most beautiful voices of praise our Church possesses.

In the course of the afternoon, however, he had acquired all the gossip to be had about its originator, and he watched the lutenist carefully that night.

Louis was the great advocate, if not the absolute originator, was an attempt to substitute series of carefully recorded facts, rigidly counted and closely compared, for those never-ending records of vague, unverifiable conclusions with which the classics of the healing art were overloaded.

Similarly, she had learned while in France that the same was proving true for the French originators of Montayne, Laboratoires Gironde-Chimie.

As a spicy paragrapher, originator of attractive news features, and as a keen observer of popular tastes, he has few equals and no superiors in the army of Afro-American journalists.

But such are the results of the barrier officially known as the Cordilleran Intercontinental Wall, but called by every newspaper after its originator, the Welling Wall.

The reformer and originator of the movement was Muhammad bin Abdul Wahhab, born at the town of Ainah, in the centre of the Nejd district, A.

Carolus, 1707-78, Swedish botanist and taxonomist, considered the founder of the binomial system of nomenclature and the originator of modern scientific classification of plants and animals.

It became law two years afterwards, and when, as the originator of the scheme, I attempted to get my just reward, they laughed in my face.

Chaitanya, however, as the Babu points out, was not the originator of this theory, but appears to have borrowed it from his neighbour Adwaita Acharjya, whose custom it was, after performing his daily ritual, to go to the banks of the Ganges and call aloud for the coming of the god who should substitute love and faith for mere rites and ceremonies.

An invention which increases or cheapens the conveniences or comforts of life may be a fortune to its originator.

The prosiness of the originators detracted nothing from the bravery of the movement.

These were the driving forces too in the work of the third great originator, the novelist Dostoevski, from whose writings, especially The Brothers Karamazov and Notes from Underground, springs virtually the whole flowering of Existentialist sensibility in literature.

Ushogbo, the only Cardinal to disappear, the only Cardinal without a biological parent, the only one originator of the theosophy that Tennys admired so much.