creation

Noun
Synonyms: creative activityconceptioninitiationfoundingfoundationinstitutionoriginationinnovationintroductioninstaurationCreationuniverse

WordNet 3.0

Noun (6)

  1. the human act of creatingSynonyms: creative activity
  2. an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
  3. the event that occurred at the beginning of something“from its creation the plan was doomed to failure”Synonyms: conception
  4. the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new“she looked forward to her initiation as an adult”“the foundation of a new scientific society”Synonyms: initiationfoundingfoundationinstitutionoriginationinnovationintroductioninstauration
  5. (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existenceSynonyms: Creation
  6. everything that exists anywhere“they study the evolution of the universe”“the biggest tree in existence”Synonyms: universeexistenceworldcosmosmacrocosm
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Creation \Cre*a"tion\ (kr?-A"sh?n), n. [L. creatio: cf. F. cr?ation. See Create.]

1.The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence. [1913 Webster]

From the creation to the general doom.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation.— Locke.[1913 Webster]

2.That which is created; that which is produced or caused to exist, as the world or some original work of art or of the imagination; nature. [1913 Webster]

We know that the whole creation groaneth.— Rom. viii. 22.[1913 Webster]
A dagger of the mind, a false creation.— Shak.[1913 Webster]
Choice pictures and creations of curious art.— Beaconsfield.[1913 Webster]

3.The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation. [1913 Webster]

An Irish peer of recent creation.— Landor.[1913 Webster]
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