originator

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
originator
    n 1: someone who creates new things [syn: {originator},
         {conceiver}, {mastermind}]
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Originator \O*rig"i*na`tor\, n.
   One who originates.
   [1913 Webster]
from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "originator":
      agent, ancestors, apprentice, architect, artificer, artist, author,
      begetter, beginner, builder, catalyst, causer, conceiver,
      constructor, craftsman, creator, designer, deviser, discoverer,
      effector, engenderer, engineer, executor, executrix, father,
      founder, generator, grower, inaugurator, industrialist, initiator,
      inspirer, instigator, institutor, introducer, inventor, journeyman,
      maker, manufacturer, master, master craftsman, mother, mover,
      organizer, original, parent, past master, patriarch, planner,
      precursor, prime mover, primum mobile, producer, raiser, realizer,
      shaper, sire, smith, wright
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