creature
Meaning
Noun
- A living being; an animal.
- A human.
- A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
- A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
Origin
- From Middle English creature in the original sense of “a created thing”, borrowed via Old French creature, criature, from Latin creātūra, from creō. Displaced native . craythur, and critter.
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