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crea·tion (krē ā′s̸hən)

noun

  1. a creating or being created
  2. the universe and everything in it; all the world
  3. anything created; esp., something original created by the imagination; invention, design, etc.

Etymology: ME creacion < L creatio

creation Idioms

the Creation

Theol. God's creating of the world

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creation Synonyms

creation

n.

  1. The process of creating

    origination, production, formulation; see conception 1, making, origin 1, production 1.

  2. All that has been created

    cosmos, nature, totality, world; see earth 1, universe.

  3. A work of art

    creative work, imaginative work, work of genius, opus, magnum opus, chef d'oeuvre (French), piece, production, invention, brainchild*; see also art 3, work 3.


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creation Usage Examples

Preposition: of

  • universe: They only usually exist for small three geometries, corresponding to the creation of a small universe.

Converse of object

  • announce: In 2000 the government announced the creation of the first nurse consultant posts and established a target of 1,000 nurse consultants by 2004.

Adjective modifier

  • artistic: The Newsletter provides a forum for you to express your ideas, needs, scientific and artistic creations.

Modifies a noun

  • myth: Thus a theory, especially a foundational theory, is constructed in a mathematical creation myth.

Noun used with modifier

  • wealth: The second in Ivor's series of talks on the Integrated Company looks at wealth creation.
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creation quotes

Je crois que l'automobile est aujourd'hui l'e¤  quivalent assez exact des grandes cathe¤  drales gothiques: je veux dire une grande cre¤  ation d'e¤  poque, con c° ue passionne¤  ment par des artistes inconnus, consomme¤  e dans son image, sinon dans son usage, par un peuple entier qui s'approprie en elle un objet parfaitement magique. Cars todayare almost the exact equivalent of the great Gothic cathedrals†the supreme creation of an era, conceived with passion by unknown artists, and consummated in image if not in usage bya whole populationwhich appropriates themas a purely magical object.

-Barthes, Roland

For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

-Bible (NewTestament)

We bless thee for our creation, preservation, and all the blessings of this life; but above all for thine inestimable love in the redemption of the world by our Lord Jesus Christ; for the means of grace, and for the hope of glory.

-Book of Common Prayer

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