creature

crea·ture

C0734500 (krē′chər)n.1. a. A living being, especially an animal: land creatures; microscopic creatures in a drop of water.b. A human.c. An imaginary or fantastical being: mythological creatures; a creature from outer space.2. One dependent on or subservient to another.3. Something created.

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crea′tur·al adj.crea′ture·li·ness n.crea′ture·ly adj.

creature

(ˈkriːtʃə) n1. a living being, esp an animal2. something that has been created, whether animate or inanimate: a creature of the imagination. 3. a human being; person: used as a term of scorn, pity, or endearment4. a person who is dependent upon another; tool or puppet[C13: from Church Latin crēatūra, from Latin crēare to create] ˈcreatural, ˈcreaturely adj ˈcreatureliness n

crea•ture

(ˈkri tʃər)

n. 1. an animal, esp. a nonhuman. 2. any unspecific being: creatures of the imagination. 3. person; human being: a lovely creature. 4. a person under the control or influence of another. [1250–1300; Middle English < Late Latin creātūra act of creating. See create, -ure] crea′tur•al, crea′ture•ly, adj.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	creature - a living organism characterized by voluntary movementanimal, animate being, beast, brute, faunaorganism, being - a living thing that has (or can develop) the ability to act or function independentlyritual killing, sacrifice - the act of killing (an animal or person) in order to propitiate a deitytracking, trailing - the pursuit (of a person or animal) by following tracks or marks they left behindanimal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia - taxonomic kingdom comprising all living or extinct animalspest - any unwanted and destructive insect or other animal that attacks food or crops or livestock etc.; "he sprayed the garden to get rid of pests"; "many pests have developed resistance to the common pesticides"critter - a regional term for `creature' (especially for domestic animals)creepy-crawly - an animal that creeps or crawls (such as worms or spiders or insects)darter - a person or other animal that moves abruptly and rapidly; "squirrels are darters"peeper - an animal that makes short high-pitched soundshomeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm - an animal that has a body temperature that is relatively constant and independent of the environmental temperatureectotherm, poikilotherm - an animal whose body temperature varies with the temperature of its surroundings; any animal except birds and mammalsrange animal - any animal that lives and grazes in the grassy open land of western North America (especially horses, cattle, sheep)varment, varmint - any usually predatory wild animal considered undesirable; e.g., coyotescavenger - any animal that feeds on refuse and other decaying organic matterwork animal - an animal trained for and used for heavy labordomestic animal, domesticated animal - any of various animals that have been tamed and made fit for a human environmentfeeder - an animal that feeds on a particular source of food; "a bark feeder"; "a mud feeder"migrator - an animal (especially birds and fish) that travels between different habitats at particular times of the yearmolter, moulter - an animal (especially birds and arthropods and reptiles) that periodically shed their outer layer (feathers or cuticle or skin or hair)pet - a domesticated animal kept for companionship or amusementstayer - a person or other animal having powers of endurance or perseverance; "the horse that won the race is a good stayer"stunt - a creature (especially a whale) that has been prevented from attaining full growthmarine animal, marine creature, sea animal, sea creature - any of numerous animals inhabiting the sea including e.g. fishes and molluscs and many mammalsfemale - an animal that produces gametes (ova) that can be fertilized by male gametes (spermatozoa)male - an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova)adult - any mature animalyoung, offspring - any immature animalpureblood, purebred, thoroughbred - a pedigreed animal of unmixed lineage; used especially of horsesgiant - any creature of exceptional sizesurvivor - an animal that survives in spite of adversity; "only the fittest animals were survivors of the cold winters"mutant - an animal that has undergone mutationherbivore - any animal that feeds chiefly on grass and other plants; "horses are herbivores"; "the sauropod dinosaurs were apparently herbivores"insectivore - any organism that feeds mainly on insectsacrodont - an animal having teeth consolidated with the summit of the alveolar ridge without socketspleurodont - an animal having teeth fused with the inner surface of the alveolar ridge without socketsmicroorganism, micro-organism - any organism of microscopic sizeactinomycete - any bacteria (some of which are pathogenic for humans and animals) belonging to the order Actinomycetaleszooplankton - animal constituent of plankton; mainly small crustaceans and fish larvaeconceptus, fertilized egg, embryo - an animal organism in the early stages of growth and differentiation that in higher forms merge into fetal stages but in lower forms terminate in commencement of larval lifechordate - any animal of the phylum Chordata having a notochord or spinal columninvertebrate - any animal lacking a backbone or notochord; the term is not used as a scientific classificationmetazoan - any animal of the subkingdom Metazoa; all animals except protozoans and spongesomnivore - an animal that feeds on both animal and vegetable substancespredatory animal, predator - any animal that lives by preying on other animalsprey, quarry - animal hunted or caught for foodgame - animal hunted for food or sport
	2.	creature - a human being; `wight' is an archaic termwightindividual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
	3.	creature - a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone elsepuppet, toolslave - a person who is owned by someone

creature

noun1. living thing, being, animal, beast, brute, critter (U.S. dialect), quadruped, dumb animal, lower animal Many cultures believe that every living creature possesses a spirit.2. person, man, woman, individual, character, fellow, soul, human being, mortal, body, wight (archaic) He is one of the most amiable creatures in existence.3. minion, tool, instrument (informal), puppet, cohort (chiefly U.S.), dependant, retainer, hanger-on, lackey, hireling We are not merely creatures of our employers.

creature

nounA member of the human race:being, body, homo, human, human being, individual, life, man, mortal, party, person, personage, soul.

Translations

人人或动物动物生物

creature

(ˈkriːtʃə) noun1. an animal or human being. all God's creatures. 人或動物 生物，人 2. a term of contempt or pity. The poor creature could hardly stand. (表示輕蔑或同情)人，傢伙 （可怜的）人或动物

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