create
English
/kɹiːˈeɪt/
verb
Definitions
- (transitive) To bring into existence; (sometimes in particular:)
- (transitive) To cause, to bring (a non-object) about by an action, behavior, or event, to occasion.
- (transitive) To confer or invest with a rank or title of nobility, to appoint, ordain or constitute.
- (intransitive) To be or do something creative, imaginative, originative.
- (transitive) In theatre, to be the first performer of a role; to originate a character.
- (UK) To make a fuss, complain; to shout.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English createn derived from Latin creātus.
Origin
Latin
creātus
Gloss
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Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- autocreation English
- cocreate English
- cocreation English
- concreate English
- creatable English
- creatard English
- createth English
- creation English
- creational English
- creationary English
- creationism English
- creationist English
- creationless English
- creotard English
- decreation English
- discreate English
- miscreate English
- miscreation English
- new English
- newcreate English
- self-create English
- subcreation English
- transcreate English
- uncreatable English
- uncreate English
- uncreation English
- creātus Latin
- criado Portuguese
- creacion Middle English
- creat Middle English
- createn Middle English
- creatour Middle English
- creature Middle English