Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who begets; a generator; a father or sire.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who begets; a father or sire; a generator.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who procreates; a father or mother.
  • noun figuratively One who originates or creates something.

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Examples

  • John Barth is known as the procreator of sacred monsters ” strange hybrid creatures endowed with attributes that display his erudition, gift for mimicry, and perversity, in almost equal proportions.

    Tripping the Not-So-Light Fantastic Towers, Robert 1991

  • The guardian of Islam's holiest sites and procreator of Muslim schools and institutions worldwide, Saudi Arabia commands influence by its great wealth and religious conservatism, while also maintaining an increasingly close relationship with the United States.

    Richard Eisendorf: Who Will Be the Next Sadat? Richard Eisendorf 2010

  • The guardian of Islam's holiest sites and procreator of Muslim schools and institutions worldwide, Saudi Arabia commands influence by its great wealth and religious conservatism, while also maintaining an increasingly close relationship with the United States.

    Richard Eisendorf: Who Will Be the Next Sadat? Richard Eisendorf 2010

  • The guardian of Islam's holiest sites and procreator of Muslim schools and institutions worldwide, Saudi Arabia commands influence by its great wealth and religious conservatism, while also maintaining an increasingly close relationship with the United States.

    Richard Eisendorf: Who Will Be the Next Sadat? Richard Eisendorf 2010

  • Claims that procreator Americans are better off than are nonbelievers are hypocritical since the latter are the targets of considerable bigotry, and are contradicted by the truth that social problems tend to be most elevated in the more creationist regions -- lifespans are actually decreasing in parts of the Bible belt.

    Bringing Creationism to Heel Requires Making America Less Socially Darwinistic 2009

  • Why assume that gender, sexual orientation, or status as a procreator precludes insight into parenting?

    Letters to the Editor 2005

  • Why assume that gender, sexual orientation, or status as a procreator precludes insight into parenting?

    Letters to the Editor 2005

  • The winner of such fights controlled fertile females, claiming new forested territory as a result, thus becoming the new procreator of genetic bonds, killing off genetic competitor's offspring if he had to.

    Human Hell and the Demons of War 2006

  • Yet surely to be a parent, a generator of the fetus, a procreator, is to have a closer relationship to the fetus than merely to contain the child physically.

    Link Farm and Open Thread #15 2006

  • From maturity to senility he would increasingly resemble his paternal procreator.

    Ulysses 2003

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