created

Created is the past tense and past participle of the verb create. It denotes the act of bringing something into existence or causing something to come into being. In English, created is used to describe completed actions in the past, as in The product was created last year. As a participle, it forms perfect tenses with have or has (they have created) and can be used in the passive voice (was created). As an adjective, created can modify nouns to indicate that something has been produced by a person or process, for example a created object or a created world in certain stylistic or philosophical contexts.

Etymology and form: The word comes from the Latin creare, via Old French creer, with its precise ultimate origins often traced to classical Latin. The English form created follows regular past-tense conjugation patterns.

Usage and meaning: Created is common across domains such as business, technology, art, and science. It often appears in phrases like created by, created for, or newly created, and it can imply intentional design, fabrication, or origination. In many contexts, it contrasts with words like existing or natural, emphasizing human or deliberate origin.

In computing and information management, created is frequently used as a timestamp or field label indicating when an item was produced or recorded, such as a file’s created date or a record’s created_at value.

See also: create, creation, creator, creative.