creation Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun the human act of creating
    creative activity.
  2. noun an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
  3. noun the event that occurred at the beginning of something
    conception.
    • from its creation the plan was doomed to failure
  4. noun the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new
    foundation; instauration; founding; introduction; origination; initiation; innovation; institution.
    • she looked forward to her initiation as an adult
    • the foundation of a new scientific society
  5. noun (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence
  6. noun everything that exists anywhere
    universe; macrocosm; existence; world; cosmos.
    • they study the evolution of the universe
    • the biggest tree in existence

WordNet

Cre*a"tion noun
Etymology
L. creatio: cf. F. cration. See Create.
Definitions
  1. The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.
    From the creation to the general doom. Shak.
    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.
  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.
    We know that the whole creation groaneth. Rom. viii. 22.
    A dagger of the mind, a false creation. Shak.
    Choice pictures and creations of curious art. Beaconsfield.
  3. The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.
    An Irish peer of recent creation. Landor.

Webster 1913