Plural of animater; multiple people or things that animate or give life and movement to things.
Plural of animater, formed by adding -s (the standard English plural marker since Old English). Represents a now-archaic plural of an already rare variant of 'animator'.
The fact that 'animaters' exists in old texts but we now say 'animators' shows how standardization of professional terminology gradually wins out—once 'animator' became the term for people who create cartoons and motion, alternative forms faded away.
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