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Creation

Creation

133 7.1
An act by God that creates the universe and all living things
  • noun
  • /kriˈeɪʃən/
: 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
27 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
1 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

13 4.8

To make something again after people destroy or lose it

3 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

To make new ideas and images using speech or writing

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

pair creation
  • Specialized
1 9.9

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

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

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

How Creative

invention
84 3.2
poiesis
  • Literature
1 9.9
Creation
133 7.1
production
668 2.7
replication
10 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.