creature

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Alternative spellings 1.2 Etymology 1.3 Pronunciation 1.4 Noun 1.4.1 Usage notes 1.4.2 Hyponyms 1.4.3 Related terms 1.4.4 Derived terms 1.4.5 Translations 1.4.6 References 2 Italian 2.1 Noun

[edit] English

[edit] Alternative spellings

• creäture (archaic, chiefly literary and philosophy)

[edit] Etymology

Existing since Middle English in the original sense of “a created thing”, borrowed via Old French from Late Latin creatura, from creare.^[1]

[edit] Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: krē'chə, IPA: /ˈkɹiːʧə/, SAMPA: /"kr\i:tS@/
• (US) enPR: krē'chər, IPA: /ˈkɻiːʧɚ/, SAMPA: /"kr\`i:tS@`/
•  Audio (US)^{help, file}

  Rhymes: -iːtʃə(r)

[edit] Noun

creature (plural creatures)

1. A created thing, whether animate or inanimate.
2. Anything created or not self-existent.
3. A living being that moves of its own volition.
4. An animal or human.
5. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

   In order to remind the Kapos they were just his creatures, the concentration camp commandant regularly gave one of them an arbitrary lashing on the bare; any willfullness meant replacing by a new, humbler creature

[edit] Usage notes

• For an explanation of the specialised use of the alternative spelling creäture, see its entry’s usage notes.

[edit] Hyponyms

• See also Wikisaurus:creature

[edit] Related terms

[edit] Derived terms

• creature comfort

[edit] Translations

[edit] References

• Notes:

1. ^ The Concise Oxford English Dictionary [Eleventh Edition]

• creature in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• creature in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

creature f.

1. Plural form of creatura.