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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
creature/ˈkriːtʃə(r)/
▶noun
- 1 an animal, as distinct from a human being.
■ an animal or person.
■ archaic anything living or existing.
- 2 a person or organization under the complete control of another: the village teacher was expected to be the creature of his employer.
– derivatives
creaturely adjective.
creaturely adjective.
– origin ME (in the sense ‘something created’): via OFr. from late L. creatura, from creare (see create).
'creature' also found in these Oxford entries:
actant
- antelope
- aura
- behemoth
- being
- berry
- Bigfoot
- bottom feeder
- centaur
- Chindit
- conodont
- creature comforts
- creepy-crawly
- critter
- elf
- fly
- gnome
- goblin
- griffin
- grockle
- haurient
- hippogriff
- homunculus
- jeep
- leviathan
- mermaid
- Minotaur
- monster
- mortal
- naiant
- natural
- noctule
- salamander
- sea horse
- selkie
- subhuman
- tamagotchi
- thing
- volatile
- wight
- wing
- yeti
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A woman is a creature what is meant to be in the home.
Can the pronoun IT refer to a living creature?
creature
Creature [referring to children?]
creature/material comforts
earth creature
get hold of every male creature
He's a creature of habit.
In the long run, the only scale that matters for a creature
living creature-proof - verb and adjective
the creature was aware of his own motivations
the largest sea creature there is
the man/creature
was an-odd looking creature the size of a sheep
What kind of <a creature, creature> is that?
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