create
Pronunciation: /kɹiːˈeɪt/
The English word “create” has 9 meanings listed here.
verb
- To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
- To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
- To make or produce from other (e.g. raw, unrefined or scattered) materials or combinable elements or ideas; to design or invest with a new form, shape, function, etc.
- To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
- To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
- To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
- In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
- To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
adjective
Etymology
From Middle English createn, from Latin creātus, the perfect passive participle of creō, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). In this sense, mostly displaced Old English wyrċan (whence Modern English work) and ġesċieppan (whence Modern English shape).
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