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Creation

Creation

258 7.1
An act by God that creates the universe and all living things
  • noun
  • /kriˈeɪʃən/
translation icon : creación
  • In the beginning, God initiated the creation of the heavens and the earth.
  • God's Creation
  • divine Creation
  • doctrine of Creation

I mean, these things have been around since creation, watching humans.

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Examples

  • In a place like here you muse about God and creation.

  • From the creation of this beautiful world of ours to the fall of mankind.

  • Well, of course, the start of all creation stories is light.

  • And the point there was in space before the creation of space itself.

  • We are all made in His creation, and in His name we pray.

  • So all of creation is God's property.

  • You see God's creation in people.

  • So the child is God's creation, and we are all God's creation.

  • He gave man free will because He wanted His creation's love.

  • What a divine creation!

Synonyms

genesis
vsCreation
24 7.6

The start of something and how it began

is restricted to a divine act where God brings universe and living things into being
cosmogenesis
vsCreation
  • Specialized
9.9

The origin of the universe and how space and time began

is described as a divine act where God brings universe and life into being

Idioms

Working very hard and fully involved in making something new

Compounds

2 8.3

An attempt to use science to support the Bible story of how life began, often opposing evolution

A work that shows skill and feeling, like a painting or sculpture

An idea that new matter is created so the universe keeps the same density as it expands

A religious story in the Bible about how God creates the world

To make something again after people destroy or lose it

pair creation
  • Specialized
9.9

A process where a high-energy photon turns into an electron and a positron near an atomic nucleus

A video or photo people say Palestinians stage to change what people think

To make new ideas and images using speech or writing

How Creative

invention
111 3.2
poiesis
  • Literature
9.9
Creation
258 7.1
production
304 2.7
replication
6 4.0

Surface Forms

Creation singular
Creations plural

Morphology

Creation = create (transparent) = create + ion

The noun is a regular nominalization of the verb 'create' with the productive suffix '-ion', so the meaning is directly derivable from the base verb.

Etymology

Creation comes from the Latin word creare, which means 'to make' or 'produce'. Think of a creator making something new, and you have the idea of Creation as the act of bringing the world or any living thing into existence.