Maker
- noun
- /ˈmeɪkər/
- In religious teachings, God is referred to as our Maker, the creator of the universe.
- Maker of heaven
Yeah, but I'm ready to to face my maker if it comes.
- Yeah, but I'm ready to to face my maker if it comes.
- We're we're created by our maker equally.
- make the most of it for our maker, whoever our maker is, whether it's God or
- I, I don't know and I'll never know until you know, I die and I, I meet my maker, but.
Examples
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As you stand, you'll go before your Maker ill-conditioned!
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Who else would call me this but Marius, my Maker, and what is five hundred years to him?
Fiction book (2000) -
And Lord knows when you go to meet your maker, your soul is going to be very, very warm.
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You want to meet your maker, is that it?
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You can go join your maker now.
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We'll take you to your maker.
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Bless the maker and his water.
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Each in isolation hopes that the cruel daughter of their maker does not choose him.
Academic text (1990) -
I DON'T THINK I'M QUITE READY TO MEET THE MAKER YET.
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CHINGACHGOOK (Mohican) Great Spirit and the Maker of all Life... ON HAWKEYE & CHINGACHGOOK
Fiction book (1992)
Synonyms
A powerful being who knows everything that people worship as creator and ruler of the world
God in Christianity and Judaism who people pray to
A name for God used in some religions
A name people use for God, the being who made everything
A name used for God in the Old Testament
A being that people believe created the world and rules it
A name for the very powerful God in Jewish and Christian religions
The first person of the Trinity seen as creator and parent of all
A name for God thought of as a father who created and cares for people
A being who makes the world and everything in it
Idioms
Compounds
A machine that makes strong coffee by forcing hot water through finely ground beans
- Jargon
A person who sets the numbers that show how likely a team or player will win for betting
- Specialized
An ant that enters other ant nests and takes young ants to raise as workers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word Maker comes from the simple verb make, which means 'to make' or 'create', and the ending -er means 'one who does something'. So a Maker is 'one who makes', which is why people call God the Maker when they mean the creator of the world.