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?

1. 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. Mehmet Murat ildan:

   What a miserable creature man is that he prays in fear to the skies and begs help from the unknown every time he falls down to the ground!

2. Reese Witherspoon:

   I see [ fear ] as this little creature that lives in my life all the time, and I can either pay it attention and not get anything done or I can march ahead and ignore it, sometimes I just have to jump two feet into a cold pool and go, ‘ OK, I believe in Reese Witherspoon enough, I know I work hard. I know I can always bet on Reese Witherspoon. Over the past few months, the Wrinkle In Time actress has been vunerable after revealing to the world that she was sexually assaulted by a director while on the set of the film when she was 16 years old.

3. The Koran:

   Horse, you are truly a creature without equal, for you fly without wings and conquer without sword.

4. Adam Smith:

   The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.

5. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg:

   The proof that man is the noblest of all creatures is that no other creature has ever denied it.

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