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creature

crea·ture
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [kree-cher]
    • /ˈkri tʃər/
    • /ˈkriːtʃə(r)/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [kree-cher]
    • /ˈkri tʃər/

Definitions of creature word

  • countable noun creature You can refer to any living thing that is not a plant as a creature, especially when it is of an unknown or unfamiliar kind. People also refer to imaginary animals and beings as creatures. 3
  • countable noun creature If you say that someone is a particular type of creature, you are focusing on a particular quality they have. 3
  • countable noun creature If you describe someone as someone else's creature, you mean that they are controlled by or depend on that person. 3
  • noun creature a living being, esp an animal 3
  • noun creature something that has been created, whether animate or inanimate 3
  • noun creature a human being; person: used as a term of scorn, pity, or endearment 3

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Origin of creature

First appearance:

before 1250
One of the 11% oldest English words
1250-1300; Middle English creature < Late Latin creātūra act of creating. See create, -ure

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Creature

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation

creature popularity

A common word. It’s meaning is known to most children of preschool age. About 92% of English native speakers know the meaning and use the word.
Most Europeans know this English word. The frequency of it’s usage is somewhere between "mom" and "screwdriver".

creature usage trend in Literature

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Synonyms for creature

noun creature

  • woman — the female human being, as distinguished from a girl or a man.
  • individual — a single human being, as distinguished from a group.
  • soul — the principle of life, feeling, thought, and action in humans, regarded as a distinct entity separate from the body, and commonly held to be separable in existence from the body; the spiritual part of humans as distinct from the physical part.
  • fellow — a man or boy: a fine old fellow; a nice little fellow.
  • person — a human being, whether an adult or child: The table seats four persons.

Antonyms for creature

noun creature

  • abstract — An abstract idea or way of thinking is based on general ideas rather than on real things and events.
  • plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
  • inanimate — not animate; lifeless.

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