creature

[Crea·ture]

A creature is a living thing: there are flying creatures, sea creatures, and even imaginary creatures, like unicorns.

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Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

Noun
a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

Noun
a human being; `wight'' is an archaic term

Noun
a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else


n.
Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

n.
A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.

n.
A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.

n.
A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc.


Creature

Crea"ture (kr?"t?r; 135), n. [F. crature, L. creatura. See Create.] 1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.
He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him.
God's first creature was light.
On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end.
And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind.
2. A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature.
The world hath not a sweeter creature.
3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool.
A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen.
Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud.
4. A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc. Creature comforts, those which minister to the comfort of the body.

Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man.

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Usage Examples

It is in moments of illness that we are compelled to recognize that we live not alone but chained to a creature of a different kingdom, whole worlds apart, who has no knowledge of us and by whom it is impossible to make ourselves understood: our body.

I think Alone in the Dark was too much an action creature movie than a horror creature movie.

In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger.

I have to struggle to change people's perceptions of me. I grew very frustrated with the perception that I'm this shy, retiring, inhibited aristocratic creature when I'm absolutely not like that at all. I think I'm much more outgoing and exuberant than my image.

A human being has been given an intellect to make choices, and we know there are other food sources that do not require the killing of a creature that would protest being killed.

Every creature is a word of God.

Man - a creature made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.

Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that gives them a sixth sense of what the creature is going to do, so they can be ready to follow.

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Other Usage Examples

If God be God and man a creature made in image of the divine intelligence, his noblest function is the search for truth.

But it has, in addition, an even more precious quality - a consciousness of the human intelligence, the human spirit and that man is a social creature.

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it.

A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

I mean, being a child was being a child, was being a creature without power, without pocket money, without escape routes of any kind. So I didn't want to be a child.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

I am more and more convinced that man is a dangerous creature and that power, whether vested in many or a few, is ever grasping, and like the grave, cries, 'Give, give.'

I don't pity any man who does hard work worth doing. I admire him. I pity the creature who does not work, at whichever end of the social scale he may regard himself as being.

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