'Creature' definitions:
Definition of 'creature'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Creature'
From: GCIDE
- Creature \Crea"ture\ (kr[=e]"t[=u]r; 135), n. [F. cr['e]ature, L. creatura. See Create.]
- 1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. [1913 Webster]
- He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- God's first creature was light. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature. [1913 Webster]
- The world hath not a sweeter creature. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool. [1913 Webster]
- A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Creature comforts, those objects, as food, drink, and shelter, which minister to the comfort of the body. [1913 Webster +PJC]
Definition of 'creature'
From: Easton
- Creature denotes the whole creation in Rom. 8:39; Col. 1:15; Rev. 5:13; the whole human race in Mark 16:15; Rom. 8:19-22.
- The living creatures in Ezek. 10:15, 17, are imaginary beings, symbols of the Divine attributes and operations.
Synonyms of 'creature'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- Adamite,
- adherent,
- aerobic organism,
- agent,
- an existence,
- anaerobic organism,
- ancilla,
- animal,
- apple-polisher,
- appliance,
- artifact,
- ass-licker,
- autotrophic organism,
- backscratcher,
- backslapper,
- beast,
- being,
- bodily,
- body,
- bootlick,
- bootlicker,
- brainchild,
- brown-nose,
- brownie,
- brute,
- cat,
- chap,
- character,
- Charlie McCarthy,
- child,
- clawback,
- cog,
- coinage,
- commonality,
- commonalty,
- composition,
- concoction,
- contrivance,
- courtier,
- creation,
- creature comforts,
- creeping thing,
- cringer,
- critter,
- crowning achievement,
- customer,
- dependent,
- device,
- disciple,
- distillation,
- duck,
- dumb animal,
- dumb friend,
- dummy,
- dupe,
- earthling,
- effect,
- end product,
- entelechy,
- entity,
- essence,
- extract,
- fawner,
- fellow,
- feudatory,
- figurehead,
- flatterer,
- flunky,
- follower,
- footlicker,
- front,
- front man,
- fruit,
- genetic individual,
- gillie,
- go-between,
- goon,
- groundling,
- groveler,
- guy,
- hand,
- handiwork,
- handmaid,
- handmaiden,
- handshaker,
- hanger-on,
- head,
- helot,
- henchman,
- heterotrophic organism,
- hoi polloi,
- homager,
- homo,
- human,
- human being,
- implement,
- individual,
- inferior,
- instrument,
- interagent,
- intermediary,
- intermediate,
- intermedium,
- invention,
- issue,
- jackal,
- joker,
- junior,
- kowtower,
- lackey,
- lay figure,
- led captain,
- lever,
- lickspit,
- lickspittle,
- liege,
- liege man,
- life,
- lightweight,
- living being,
- living soul,
- living thing,
- lower class,
- lower orders,
- man,
- manufacture,
- masses,
- masterpiece,
- masterwork,
- material,
- mealymouth,
- mechanism,
- mediator,
- medium,
- microbe,
- microorganism,
- midwife,
- minion,
- mintage,
- monad,
- morphological individual,
- mortal,
- mundane,
- myrmidon,
- new mintage,
- nominal head,
- nose,
- object,
- offspring,
- one,
- ont,
- opera,
- opus,
- opuscule,
- organ,
- organic being,
- organism,
- organization,
- origination,
- outcome,
- outgrowth,
- party,
- pawn,
- peon,
- person,
- persona,
- personage,
- personality,
- physical,
- physiological individual,
- plaything,
- product,
- production,
- puppet,
- reptile,
- result,
- retainer,
- satellite,
- second fiddle,
- secondary,
- serf,
- servant,
- single,
- slave,
- somebody,
- someone,
- something,
- soul,
- spaniel,
- stooge,
- subaltern,
- subordinate,
- suck,
- superficial,
- sycophant,
- tellurian,
- terran,
- thing,
- third stringer,
- thug,
- timeserver,
- toad,
- toadeater,
- toady,
- tool,
- toy,
- truckler,
- tufthunter,
- underling,
- understrapper,
- unit,
- varmint,
- vassal,
- vehicle,
- virus,
- votary,
- work,
- worldling,
- yeoman,
- yes-man,
- zooid,
- zoon