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originator
| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person who establishes an institution |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, beginner, benefactor, builder, constructor, creator, designer, establisher, forebearer, framer, generator, initiator, institutor, inventor, maker, organizer, originator, patron, planner, prime mover |
| Notes: | founder means to sink, while flounder means to flail helplessly |
| Main Entry: | inventor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | discoverer |
| Synonyms: | architect, author, builder, coiner, creator, designer, experimenter, father, founder, innovator, maker, originator, pioneer |
| Main Entry: | parent |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | person, source of product |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, architect, author, begetter, cause, center, creator, father, folks, forerunner, fountainhead, guardian, mother, origin, originator, procreator, progenitor, prototype, root, source, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | child |
| Main Entry: | precursor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | something that precedes another |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, antecedent, antecessor, forebear, foregoer, forerunner, original, originator, parent, pioneer, predecessor, prototype |
| Main Entry: | source |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginning; point of supply |
| Synonyms: | antecedent, author, authority, authorship, begetter, birthplace, cause, commencement, connection, dawn, dawning, derivation, determinant, expert, father, fount, fountain, fountainhead, horse's mouth, inception, informant, maternity, mother, onset, opening, origin, origination, originator, parent, paternity, provenance, provenience, rise, rising, root, specialist, spring, start, starting point, wellspring |
| Antonyms: | effect, end, result |
| Main Entry: | maker |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | creator |
| Synonyms: | author, builder, composer, constructor, inventor, manufacturer, originator, producer |
| Main Entry: | idea man |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | thinker |
| Synonyms: | adviser, consultant, originator |
| Main Entry: | patriarch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | male head |
| Synonyms: | ancestor, architect, author, chief, creator, elder, father, founder, gaffer, generator, grandfather, graybeard, head, inventor, maker, master, old man, originator, paterfamilias, ruler, senior, sire |
| Antonyms: | matriarch |
| Main Entry: | starter |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | beginner |
| Synonyms: | initiator, innovator, inventor, opener, originator, pioneer |
| Antonyms: | adherent, follower, successor |
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