Other forms: created, creating, creates
To create is to bring something new into being. Create a account, create a problem, create a masterpiece.
It is grander than make and it is used both for genuine invention and, very commonly now, for routine computing actions: create a file, create a folder. The noun is creation, the person a creator, and the adjective creative, which has become a noun too — a creative, meaning somebody who works in design or advertising. Note create a scene, meaning to make an embarrassing fuss in public, which is a fixed and very British phrase.
1verbproduceTo make something that did not exist before.
“She created the whole system from nothing.”
2verbcauseTo cause a situation or feeling.
“The announcement created a great deal of confusion.”
3verbcreateTo set up a new file, account or record.
“Create an account and confirm the email.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
create is a way of bringing into being.
Also accepted in games: make
Latin creare meant to make or produce, and it is related to crescere, to grow — the same root as increase, crescent and recruit. Creating and growing were once the same idea, which suits the word better than manufacturing does.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱer- (grow)
Latin
creātus
Middle English
createn
English, today
create
From Middle English createn, from Latin creātus, the perfect passive participle of creō, see -ate. In this sense, mostly displaced wyrċan (whence Modern English work) and ġesċieppan (whence Modern English shape).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA