INSTITUTER Synonyms: 41 Similar and Opposite Words

instituter

noun

variants or institutor

Definition of instituter

as in founder

a person who establishes a whole new field of endeavor Eli Whitney is known as the instituter of the American system of manufacture on account of his pioneering concept of the mass production of interchangeable parts

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Noun

Ideas my co-founder Fredrik and I used to dream up in a taxi and ship within a week now needed to be cross-checked by dozens of people across half as many departments.

— Daniel Kjellén, Fortune, 24 Oct. 2026
Why Airbnb’s founder became its chief recruiter Chesky thinks he was born a good founder.

— Andrew Edgecliffe-Johnson, semafor.com, 23 Oct. 2026

Definition of founder

Noun

The two saw that media companies were overly reliant on social media for distribution, and that profits were flowing to the likes of Facebook rather than to the creators of content.

— Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026
Series creator Quinn Shephard made the very good movie Not Okay and has a strong grasp of teenage angst, so The Body seems pretty promising.

— K. Thor Jensen, PC Magazine, 26 Oct. 2026

Definition of creator

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My 80-year-old mother and 87-year-old father were singing Hindu prayers to celebrate one of the most important holidays of our faith.

— Raja Krishnamoorthi, Chicago Tribune, 28 Oct. 2026
Lozano Garita is the father of her two youngest children, relatives said.

— Kerry Burke, New York Daily News, 27 Oct. 2026

Definition of father

Noun

The model-cum-founder and chief executive officer of the Furtuna Skin beauty brand, olive oil sommelier and children’s book author shares her Wildly Potent Kitchen recipes using the oil sourced from her family estate in Sicily.

— Jennifer Weil, Footwear News, 25 Oct. 2026
Theranos whistleblower Tyler Shultz and Bad Blood author John Carreyrou have both weighed in, and Fortune has questioned whether her new persona distracts from the real story.

— Bilin Lin, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2026

Definition of author

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Believing in the coach LaVell Edwards is something like the Joseph Smith of BYU football, both the founding father and the man who established the roadmap for the program’s success.

— Dana O’Neil, CNN Money, 24 Oct. 2026
And in Turkey, a court blocked posts by Grok, the chatbot built into the social platform X, that allegedly insulted President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, founding father Mustafa Kemal Atatürk and religious values.

— Jordi Calvet-Bademunt, The Conversation, 20 Oct. 2026

Definition of founding father

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