creation

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun The act of creating.
• noun The fact or state of having been created.
• noun The act of investing with a new office or title.
• noun The world and all things in it.
• noun All creatures or a class of creatures.
• noun The divine act by which, according to various religious and philosophical traditions, the world was brought into existence.
• noun An original product of human invention or artistic imagination.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun The opinion or hypothesis that the variety of creation is perpetually increasing in consequence of the fact that the regularity of nature is not absolute or does not extend to all events.
• noun The act of creating or causing to exist; especially, the act of producing both the material and the form of that which is made; production from nothing; specifically, the original formation of the universe by the Deity.
• noun The act of forming or constituting; a bringing into existence as a unit by combination of means or materials; coördination of parts or elements into a new entity: as, the creation of a character in a play.
• noun That which is created; that which has been produced or caused to exist; a creature, or creatures collectively; specifically, the world; the universe.
• noun An act or a product of artistic or mechanical invention; the product of thought or fancy: as, a creation of the brain; a dramatic creation.
• noun The act of investing a person with a new character or function; appointment: as, the creation of peers in England.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun The act of creating or causing to exist. Specifically, the act of bringing the universe or this world into existence.
• noun 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.
• noun The act of constituting or investing with a new character; appointment; formation.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun countable An invention, artwork, etc.
• noun uncountable The act of creating something.
• noun uncountable All which exists.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• noun the event that occurred at the beginning of something
• noun an artifact that has been brought into existence by someone
• noun (theology) God's act of bringing the universe into existence
• noun the human act of creating
• noun everything that exists anywhere
• noun the act of starting something for the first time; introducing something new