create

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English

Alternative forms

• creäte (archaic)

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).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɹiːˈeɪt/
• Rhymes: -eɪt

Verb

create (third-person singular simple present creates, present participle creating, simple past and past participle created)

1. (transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)

   Synonyms: generate, make

   Antonyms: annihilate, extinguish

   • 1829, Thomas Tully Crybbace, An Essay on Moral Freedom:

     [...] God created man a moral agent.
   1. (especially of a god) To bring into existence out of nothing, without the prior existence of the materials or elements used.
   2. 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.

      Synonym: invent

      Antonym: imitate
2. (transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.

   crop failures created food shortages and high prices; his stubbornness created many difficulties
3. (transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
4. (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.

5. (transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
6. (UK, intransitive, colloquial) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.

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Adjective

create (comparative more create, superlative most create)

1. (obsolete) Created, resulting from creation.

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Further reading

• “create”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “create”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “create”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• create on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• & cetera, Cartee, cerate, ecarte, tracee, écarté

Italian

Verb

create

1. inflection of creare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Anagrams

• cerate, recate, tacere

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical Latin) IPA^(key): [kreˈaː.tɛ]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): [kreˈaː.t̪e]

Verb

creāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of creō

Participle

creāte

1. vocative masculine singular of creātus

Anagrams

• cetera

Middle English

Adjective

create

1. alternative form of creat

Verb

create

1. first-person/subjective/imperative singular present indicative of createn
2. subjective/imperative plural present indicative of createn
3. first-person/third-person/subjective singular past indicative of createn
4. plural past indicative of createn

Spanish

Verb

create

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of crear combined with te