'Genesis' definitions:
Definition of 'genesis'
From: WordNet
noun
A coming into being [syn: genesis, generation]
noun
The first book of the Old Testament: tells of Creation; Adam and Eve; the Fall of Man; Cain and Abel; Noah and the flood; God's covenant with Abraham; Abraham and Isaac; Jacob and Esau; Joseph and his brothers [syn: Genesis, Book of Genesis]
Definition of 'Genesis'
From: GCIDE
- Genesis \Gen"e*sis\, n. [L., from Gr. ge`nesis, fr. the root of gi`gnesqai to beget, be born; akin to L. genus birth, race. See Gender.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. The act of producing, or giving birth or origin to anything; the process or mode of originating; production; formation; origination. [1913 Webster]
- The origin and genesis of poor Sterling's club. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
- 2. The first book of the Old Testament; -- so called by the Greek translators, from its containing the history of the creation of the world and of the human race. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Geom.) Same as Generation. Genet
Definition of 'Genesis'
From: Hitchcock
- Genesis, beginning
Synonyms of 'genesis'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abiogenesis,
- accouchement,
- adaptation,
- alpha,
- archigenesis,
- babyhood,
- beginning,
- beginnings,
- biogenesis,
- biological evolution,
- birth,
- birth throes,
- birthing,
- blastogenesis,
- blessed event,
- childbearing,
- childbed,
- childbirth,
- childhood,
- commencement,
- conception,
- confinement,
- cradle,
- dawn,
- dawning,
- delivery,
- derivation,
- development,
- digenesis,
- epigenesis,
- eumerogenesis,
- freshman year,
- generation,
- giving birth,
- grass roots,
- hatching,
- having a baby,
- head,
- heterogenesis,
- histogenesis,
- homogenesis,
- horotely,
- inception,
- inchoation,
- incipience,
- incipiency,
- incunabula,
- infancy,
- isogenesis,
- labor,
- merogenesis,
- metagenesis,
- monogenesis,
- multiparity,
- nascence,
- nascency,
- nativity,
- natural selection,
- ontogenesis,
- ontogeny,
- opening,
- origin,
- original,
- origination,
- orthogenesis,
- outset,
- outstart,
- pangenesis,
- parthenogenesis,
- parturition,
- phylogenesis,
- phylogeny,
- physiogenesis,
- physiogeny,
- pregnancy,
- procreation,
- provenance,
- provenience,
- radical,
- radix,
- rise,
- root,
- setout,
- source,
- spontaneous generation,
- start,
- stem,
- stock,
- tachytely,
- taproot,
- the Nativity,
- the stork,
- travail,
- youth