create Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb make or cause to be or to become
    make.
    • make a mess in one's office
    • create a furor
  2. verb bring into existence
    • The company was created 25 years ago
    • He created a new movement in painting
  3. verb pursue a creative activity; be engaged in a creative activity
    • Don't disturb him--he is creating
  4. verb invest with a new title, office, or rank
    • Create one a peer
  5. verb create by artistic means
    make.
    • create a poem
    • Schoenberg created twelve-tone music
    • Picasso created Cubism
    • Auden made verses
  6. verb create or manufacture a man-made product
    make; produce.
    • We produce more cars than we can sell
    • The company has been making toys for two centuries

WordNet

Cre*ate" adjective
Etymology
L. creatus, p. p. of creare to create; akin to Gr. to accomplish, Skr. k to make, and to E. ending -cracy in aristocracy, also to crescent, cereal.
Definitions
  1. Created; composed; begotte. Obs.
    Hearts create of duty and zeal. Shak.
Cre*ate" transitive verb
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Created;present participle & verbal noun Creating
Definitions
  1. To bring into being; to form out of nothing; to cause to exist.
    In the beginning, God created the heaven and the earth. Gen. i. 1.
  2. To effect by the agency, and under the laws, of causation; to be the occasion of; to cause; to produce; to form or fashion; to renew.
    Your eye in Scotland Would create soldiers. Shak.
    Create in me a clean heart. Ps. li. 10.
  3. To invest with a new form, office, or character; to constitute; to appoint; to make; as, to create one a peer. "I create you companions to our person." Shak.

Webster 1913