Originator
[ə'rɪdʒɪneɪtə(r)] or [ə'rɪdʒənətɚ]
Definition
(n.) One who originates.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Inventor, author, maker, creator, father, former, first cause.
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Examples
- Having secured permission from the originator, we here illustrate it for the benefit of our readers. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- Hart is the originator of the Project Gutenberg-tm concept of a library of electronic works that could be freely shared with anyone. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- Sédillot (the originator of the term microbe), at the head of an ambulance corps in Alsace, was a pioneer in the rapid transport of wounded from the fiel d of battle. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- Most of us, indeed, know little of the great originators until they have been lifted up among the constellations and already rule our fates. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Its first use was as a symbol in the code by which vessels were graded in the register of shipping kept by Lloyd’s, the originators of marine insurance. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
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