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crea⋅ture

  [kree-cher]
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–noun
1. an animal, esp. 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.
6. Scot. and Older U.S. Use. intoxicating liquor, esp. whiskey (usually prec. by the): He drinks a bit of the creature before bedtime.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME creature < LL creātūra act of creating. See create, -ure
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crea·ture   (krē'chər)   
n.  
  1. Something created.
    1. A living being, especially an animal: land creatures; microscopic creatures in a drop of water.
    2. A human.
    3. An imaginary or fantastical being: mythological creatures; a creature from outer space.
  3. One dependent on or subservient to another.
crea'tur·al adj., crea'ture·li·ness n., crea'ture·ly adj.
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Creature

Crea"ture\ (kr?"t?r; 135), n. [F. cr?ature, 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. --Fuller.

God's first creature was light. --Bacon.

On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. --Milton.

And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind. --Cowper.

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

The world hath not a sweeter creature. --Shak.

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. --Shak.

Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud. --Macaulay.

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

Creature comforts, those which minister to the comfort of the body.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : creature
Spanish: criatura,
German: das Geschöpf,
Japanese: 生き物
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creature 
c.1280, "anything created," also "living being," from L. creatura "thing created," from pp. stem of creare "create." Meaning "anything that ministers to man's comforts" (1614), after I Tim. iv 4, led to jocular use for "whisky" (1638).
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Creature

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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