creation

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cre=a=tion
• COUNT in NET: 21 in 21 verses (in OT : 3 in 3 verses) (in NT : 18 in 18 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

creation, n. [L. creatio: cf. F. cration. See Create.].

•  The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.  [1913 Webster]

  "From the creation to the general doom."  [1913 Webster]

  "As when a new particle of matter dotn begin to exist, in rerum natura, which had before no being; and this we call creation."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

  "We know that the whole creation groaneth."  [1913 Webster]

  "A dagger of the mind, a false creation."  [1913 Webster]

  "Choice pictures and creations of curious art."  [1913 Webster]
•  The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.  [1913 Webster]

  "An Irish peer of recent creation."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

creation, n.
1 a the act of creating. b an instance of this.
2 a (usu. the Creation) the creating of the universe regarded as an act of God. b (usu. Creation) everything so created; the universe.
3 a product of human intelligence, esp. of imaginative thought or artistic ability.
4 a the act of investing with a title or rank. b an instance of this.

Etymology

ME f. OF f. L creatio -onis (as CREATE)

THESAURUS

creation

A, Copernican universe, Einsteinian universe, Newtonian universe, Ptolemaic universe, abecedarian, aboriginal, abundant, all, all being, all creation, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, allness, almighty, alpha, anatomy, antenatal, architectonics, architecture, arrangement, art object, artifact, assembly, authentic, authorship, autochthonous, avant-garde, beginning, birth, blast-off, blooming, boundless, bountiful, brainchild, bric-a-brac, budding, build, building, bursting, bursting out, casting, causal, causative, changeless, child, classic, coinage, commencement, composition, conception, conceptive, conceptual, concoction, conformation, constitution, construction, constructive, contrivance, contriving, conversion, copious, cosmos, crafting, craftsmanship, created nature, created universe, creating, creative, creative effort, creature, crowning achievement, cultivation, cutting edge, dawn, demiurgic, design, devising, dispensation, distillation, edge, effect, efformation, elaboration, elemental, elementary, embryonic, end product, erection, esemplastic, essence, establishment, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, everything that is, expanding universe, extract, extraction, exuberant, fabric, fabrication, fashion, fashioning, fecund, fertile, fetal, figuration, firsthand, flourishing, flying start, forging, form, format, formation, formative, formature, forming, formulation, foundation, foundational, frame, framing, fresh, fresh start, fructiferous, fruit, fruitful, fundamental, generation, generative, generous, genesis, germinal, gestatory, getup, glorious, good, grotesque, growing, hallowed, handicraft, handiwork, harvesting, hatching, highest, holy, ideational, ideative, imaginative, immortal, immutable, improvisation, in embryo, in its infancy, in the bud, inaugural, inception, inceptive, inchoate, inchoative, incipient, incunabular, infant, infantile, infinite, ingenious, initial, initiative, initiatory, innovational, innovative, inspired, institution, institutive, introductory, invention, inventive, issue, jump-off, just, kick-off, kitsch, leading edge, limitless, loving, luxuriant, machining, macrocosm, macrocosmos, majestic, make, makeup, making, making do, manufacture, manufacturing, master, masterpiece, masterwork, megacosm, merciful, metagalaxy, milling, mining, mintage, mobile, modeling, mold, molding, morphogenesis, morphogeny, museum piece, nascent, natal, nature, new, new departure, new mintage, notional, novel, nude, numinous, occasional, offspring, old master, omneity, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, oncoming, one, onset, opening, opera, opus, opuscule, organic structure, organism, organization, origin, original, origination, originative, outbreak, outcome, outgrowth, outset, parturient, pasticcio, pastiche, pattern, patterning, permanent, perpetual, physique, piece, piece of virtu, plan, plenteous, plentiful, plenum, postnatal, prefabrication, pregnant, prenatal, preparation, preservation, primal, primary, prime, primeval, primitive, primogenial, processing, procreative, producing, product, production, productive, proliferous, prolific, providence, pulsating universe, radiant, raising, refining, result, revolutionary, rich, rudimental, rudimentary, running start, sacred, sculpture, seminal, send-off, setting in motion, setting-up, setup, shape, shaping, sidereal universe, smelting, sovereign, square one, stabile, start, start-off, starting point, statue, steady-state universe, still life, structure, structuring, study, sum of things, superabundant, supreme, swarming, system, take-off, tectonics, teeming, texture, the world, thriving, timeless, tissue, totality, totality of being, uberous, ubiquitous, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, underived, unique, universe, unlimited, ur, virtu, visioned, visitations of providence, warp and woof, weave, web, whole wide world, wide world, work, work of art, workmanship, world, world without end

ROGET THESAURUS

creation

Nonimitation

N nonimitation, no imitation, originality, creativeness, invention, creation, unimitated, uncopied, unmatched, unparalleled, inimitable, unique, original, creative, inventive, untranslated, exceptional, rare, sui generis uncommon, unexampled.

Beginning

N beginning, commencement, opening, outset, incipience, inception, inchoation, introduction, alpha, initial, inauguration, debut, le premier pas, embarcation, rising of the curtain, maiden speech, outbreak, onset, brunt, initiative, move, first move, narrow end of the wedge, thin end of the wedge, fresh start, new departure, origin, source, rise, bud, germ, egg, rudiment, genesis, primogenesis, birth, nativity, cradle, infancy, start, inception, creation, starting point, dawn, evolution, title-page, head, heading, van, caption, fatihah, entrance, entry, inlet, orifice, mouth, chops, lips, porch, portal, portico, propylon, door, gate, gateway, postern, wicket, threshold, vestibule, propylaeum, skirts, border, first stage, first blush, first glance, first impression, first sight, rudiments, elements, outlines, grammar, alphabet, ABC, beginning, initial, initiatory, initiative, inceptive, introductory, incipient, proemial, inaugural, inchoate, inchoative, embryonic, rudimental, primogenial, primeval, primitive, primordial, aboriginal, natal, nascent, first, foremost, leading, maiden, begun, just begun, at the beginning, in the beginning first, in the first place, imprimis, first and foremost, in limine, in the bud, in embryo, in its infancy, from the beginning, from its birth, ab initio, ab ovo, ab incunabilis, ab origine, let's get going!, let's get this show on the road!, up and at 'em!, aller Anfang ist schwer, dimidium facti qui coepit habet, omnium rerum principia parva sunt.

Effect

N effect, consequence, aftergrowth, aftercome, derivative, derivation, result, resultant, resultance, upshot, issue, denouement, end, development, outgrowth, fruit, crop, harvest, product, bud, production, produce, work, handiwork, fabric, performance, creature, creation, offspring, offshoot, firstfruits, firstlings, heredity, telegony, premices premises, owing to, resulting from, derivable from, due to, caused by, dependent upon, derived from, evolved from, derivative, hereditary, telegonous, of course, it follows that, naturally, consequently, as a consequence, in consequence, through, all along of, necessarily, eventually, cela va sans dire, thereby hangs a tale.

Production

N production, creation, construction, formation, fabrication, manufacture, building, architecture, erection, edification, coinage, diaster, organization, nisus formativus, putting together, establishment, workmanship, performance, achievement, flowering, fructification, inflorescence, bringing forth, parturition, birth, birth-throe, childbirth, delivery, confinement, accouchement, travail, labor, midwifery, obstetrics, geniture, gestation, assimilation, evolution, development, growth, entelechy, fertilization, gemination, germination, heterogamy, genesis, generation, epigenesis, procreation, progeneration, propagation, fecundation, impregnation, albumen, spontaneous generation, archegenesis, archebiosis, biogenesis, abiogenesis, digenesis, dysmerogenesis, eumerogenesis, heterogenesis, oogenesis, merogenesis, metogenesis, monogenesis, parthenogenesis, homogenesis, xenogenesis, authorship, publication, works, opus, oeuvre, biogeny, dissogeny, xenogeny, tocogony, vacuolization, edifice, building, structure, fabric, erection, pile, tower, flower, fruit, produced, producing, productive of, prolific, creative, formative, genetic, genial, genital, pregnant, enceinte, big with, fraught with, in the family way, teeming, parturient, in the straw, brought to bed of, puerperal, puerperous, digenetic, heterogenetic, oogenetic, xenogenetic, ectogenous, gamic, haematobious, sporogenous, sporophorous, architectonic, ex nihilo nihil, fiat lux, materiam superabat opus, nemo dat quod non habet.

Deity

N deity, Divinity, Godhead, Godship, Omnipotence, Providence, Heaven (metonymically), divineness, divinity, God, Lord, Jehovah, Jahweh, Allah, The Almighty, The Supreme Being, The First Cause, the Prime Mover, Ens Entium, Author of all things, Creator of all things, Author of our being, Cosmoplast, El, The Infinite, The Eternal, The All-powerful, The All-wise, The All- merciful, The All-holy, infinite power, infinite wisdom, infinite goodness, infinite justice, infinite truth, infinite mercy, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, unity, immutability, holiness, glory, majesty, sovereignty, infinity, eternity, The Trinity, The Holy Trinity, The Trinity in Unity, The Triune God, God the Father Son and Holy Ghost, God the Father, The Maker, The Creator, The Preserver, creation, preservation, divine government, Theocracy, Thearchy, providence, ways of Providence, dealings of Providence, dispensations of Providence, visitations of Providence, God the Son, Jesus, Christ, The Messiah, The Anointed, The Saviour, the Redeemer, The Mediator, The Intercessor, The Advocate, The Judge, The Son of God, The Son of Man, The Son of David, The Lamb of God, The Word, Logos, Emmanuel, Immanuel, The King of Kings and Lord of Lords, The King of Glory, The Prince of Peace, The Good Shepherd, The Way, The Truth, The Life, The Bread of Life, The Light of the World, The Lord our, The Sun of Righteousness, The Pilot of the Galilean lake, The Incarnation, The Hypostatic Union, salvation, redemption, atonement, propitiation, mediation, intercession, judgment, God the Holy Ghost, The Holy Spirit, Paraclete, The Comforter, The Spirit of Truth, The Dove, inspiration, unction, regeneration, sanctification, consolation, eon, aeon, special providence, deus ex machina, avatar, almighty, holy, hallowed, sacred, divine, heavenly, celestial, sacrosanct, all-knowing, all-seeing, all-wise, omniscient, superhuman, supernatural, ghostly, spiritual, hyperphysical, unearthly, theistic, theocratic, anointed, soterial, Adj, jure divino, by divine right, Domine dirige nos, en Dieu est ma fiance, et sceleratis sol oritur, He mounts the storm and walks upon the wind, Thou great First Cause, least understood, sans Dieu rien.

World

N world, creation, nature, universe, earth, globe, wide world, cosmos, kosmos, terraqueous globe, sphere, macrocosm, megacosm, music of the spheres, heavens, sky, welkin, empyrean, starry cope, starry heaven, starry host, firmament, Midgard, supersensible regions, varuna, vault of heaven, canopy of heaven, celestial spaces, heavenly bodies, stars, asteroids, nebulae, galaxy, milky way, galactic circle, via lactea, ame no kawa, sun, orb of day, Apollo, Phoebus, photosphere, chromosphere, solar system, planet, planetoid, comet, satellite, moon, orb of night, Diana, silver-footed queen, aerolite, meteor, planetary ring, falling star, shooting star, meteorite, uranolite, constellation, zodiac, signs of the zodiac, Charles's wain, Big Dipper, Little Dipper, Great Bear, Southern Cross, Orion's belt, Cassiopea's chair, Pleiades, colures, equator, ecliptic, orbit, astronomy, uranography, uranology, cosmology, cosmography, cosmogony, eidouranion, orrery, geodesy, star gazing, star gazer, astronomer, observatory, planetarium, cosmic, cosmical, mundane, terrestrial, terrestrious, terraqueous, terrene, terreous, telluric, earthly, geotic, under the sun, sublunary, subastral, solar, heliacal, lunar, celestial, heavenly, sphery, starry, stellar, sidereal, sideral, astral, nebular, uranic, in all creation, on the face of the globe, here below, under the sun, die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht, earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice o, green calm below, blue quietness above, hanging in a golden chain this pendant World, nothing in nature is unbeautiful, silently as a dream the fabric rose, some touch of nature's genial glow, this majestical roof fretted with golden fire, through knowledge we behold the World's creation.