Definitions for creature
ˈkri tʃərcrea·ture

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna(noun)

   a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

2. creature, wight(noun)

   a human being; `wight' is an archaic term

3. creature, tool, puppet(noun)

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

Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. creature(Noun)

   A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.

2. creature(Noun)

   A living being; an animal or human.

3. creature(Noun)

   A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

Webster Dictionary(1.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition:

1. Creature(noun)

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

   Etymology: [F. crature, L. creatura. See Create.]

2. Creature(noun)

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

   Etymology: [F. crature, L. creatura. See Create.]

3. Creature(noun)

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

   Etymology: [F. crature, L. creatura. See Create.]

4. Creature(noun)

   a general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc

   Etymology: [F. crature, L. creatura. See Create.]

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British National Corpus

1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'creature' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4678

2. Nouns Frequency

   Rank popularity for the word 'creature' in Nouns Frequency: #1131

How to pronounce creature?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of creature in Chaldean Numerology is: 1

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of creature in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of creature in a Sentence

1. Thomas Bailey:

   The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks.

2. Pearl S. Buck:

   The bitterest creature under heaven is the wife who discovers that her husband's bravery is only bravado, that his strength is only a uniform, that his power is but a gun in the hands of a fool.

3. Stephan Grellet:

   I expect to pass through this world but once any good thing therefore that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now let me not defer or neglect it, for I shall not pass this way again.

4. Herman Melville, Moby Dick:

   Men may seem detestable as joint stock-companies and nations; knaves, fools, and murderers there may be; men may have mean and meagre faces; but man, in the ideal, is so noble and so sparkling, such a grand and glowing creature, that over any ignominious blemish in him all his fellows should run to throw their costliest robes.

5. Thomas à Kempis:

   If your heart were sincere and upright, every creature would be unto you a looking-glass of life and a book of holy doctrine.

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