creature
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tʃər noun
1.
an animal, especially a nonhuman: the creatures of the woods and fields; a creature from outer space.
2.
anything created, whether animate or inanimate.
3.
person; human being: She is a charming creature. The driver of a bus is sometimes an irritable creature.
4.
an animate being.
5.
a person whose position or fortune is owed to someone or something and who continues under the control or influence of that person or thing: The cardinal was a creature of Louis XI.
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Collins
World English Dictionary
creature (ˈkriːtʃə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | a living being, esp an animal |
| 2. | something that has been created, whether animate or inanimate: a creature of the imagination |
| 3. | a human being; person: used as a term of scorn, pity, or endearment |
| 4. | a person who is dependent upon another; tool or puppet |
| [C13: from Church Latin crēatūra, from Latin crēare to create] | |
| 'creatural | |
| —adj | |
| 'creaturely | |
| —adj | |
| 'creatureliness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
creature
late 13c., "anything created," also "living being," from L. creatura "thing created," from pp. stem of creare "create." Meaning "anything that ministers to man's comforts" (1610s), after I Tim. iv 4, led to jocular use for "whisky" (1630s).
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Easton
Bible Dictionary
Creature definition
denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22. The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine attributes and operations.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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Example sentences
The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle.
After they easily overpower the small creature, they take it back to the block where they proudly display their catch.
In other words, you've got to explain how the first single- celled creature got encapsulated in a cell.
The investigators found that the creature's morphology depends on which species the egg comes from.
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