Creation

n.	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.

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

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