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Creature
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- 1 A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
"insects and other creatures"
- 2 a living organism characterized by voluntary movement wordnet
- 3 An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
"When it comes to this creature you have to unlearn everything you've ever learned about physiology. For example, when its appendages emerge to feed, they do so using incredible bursts of growth, quite unlike anything ever seen before […]"
- 4 a living being wordnet
- 5 A human. derogatory, sometimes
"He's a creature of habit."
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- 6 a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else wordnet
- 7 A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation. uncommon
"Thoughts, my mindes creatures, often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie."
- 8 A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
""You know what I advise," said Mrs. Smith. "Ask Miss Dunstable to advance the money on the same security which the duke holds. She will be as safe then as he is now. And if you can arrange that, stand for the county against him; perhaps you may be beaten." "I shouldn't have a chance." "But it would show that you are not a creature in the duke's hands. That's my advice," said Mrs. Smith, with much spirit; […]"
Etymology
From Middle English creature in the original sense of “a created thing”, borrowed via Old French creature, criature, from Latin creātūra, from creō. Displaced native Old English ġesċeaft. Doublet of craythur and critter.
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