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# creation

«creation» in Mova's school dictionary: **the act of making something new** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (creation, a creation, creations; Creation)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Creation is the act of making something new. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creation/#m1)

2) A creation is a thing someone has made, like a painting, a cake or a story. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creation/#m2)

3) (Bible, religion) Creation, or the Creation, is the making of the world by God, told in Genesis; it can also mean the whole world and everything in it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creation/#m3)

### sense in the lessons

In art lessons a pupil's model is "your creation". In RE the creation story tells of six days of making and one of rest; in science, pupils learn the Big Bang and evolution as how the universe and life developed, and many believers say science and faith answer different questions. Phrases: the creation of, a new creation, all creation, the story of creation, care for creation.

### examples

- The chef showed off her latest creation: a rainbow cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creation/#x1)
- The creation of the school garden took all term. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creation/#x2)
- In Genesis, creation takes six days. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creation/#x3)
- My Lego creation was a castle with a moat. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creation/#x4)
- Christians believe people should care for God's creation. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creation/#x5)
- The creation of the national park protected the forest. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creation/#x6)

### note

Countable for things made ("two creations"), uncountable for the act. Verb create; adjective creative; person creator. Capital C sometimes for the world as God's work.

### In the corpora

- [People are made last, so many Christians see them as the high point of creation, made to care for the rest.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/1-creation-god-the-maker/10/)
- [Christians believe the earth is God's creation and that people are its stewards, called to look after it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/47-the-environment/5/)
- [The Bible says little about animals in heaven; some Christians hope God will make all creation new.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/religion-ethics/72-what-happens-after-we-die-what-our-church-teaches/17/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «creation» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/creation/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.