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Grammar : Noun |
Spell : kree-cher |
Phonetic Transcription : ˈkri tʃər |
Definition of creature
Origin :- late 13c., "anything created," also "living being," from Old French creature (Modern French créature), from Late Latin creatura "thing created," from creatus, past participle of Latin creare "create" (see create). Meaning "anything that ministers to man's comforts" (1610s), after I Tim. iv:4, led to jocular use for "whiskey" (1630s).
- noun being, beast
- Would I rob Heaven and give the praise and honour to the creature?
- Extract from : « Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. 327 » by Various
- This is certainly a very high and unusual devise to so young a creature.
- Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 1 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
- He smiled' at Miss Gregg, who was elderly and gray, but visibly his creature.
- Extract from : « K » by Mary Roberts Rinehart
- Every creature whose rival I could possibly become is my enemy.
- Extract from : « The Bacillus of Beauty » by Harriet Stark
- No, I heard nothing; I felt the thought of that creature touching my thought.
- Extract from : « The Trail Book » by Mary Austin
- And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.
- Extract from : « An Explanation of Luther's Small Catechism » by Joseph Stump
- I hardly know what sort of creature or hobgoblin to call them.
- Extract from : « The Gorgon's Head » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- He, Philip Crane, the man of calculation, was but a creature of emotion.
- Extract from : « Thoroughbreds » by W. A. Fraser
- A creature of hope and joy, the first draught of sorrow had bewildered her.
- Extract from : « The White Old Maid (From "Twice Told Tales") » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
- I'm an obstinate kind of creature, and get things by hanging on.
- Extract from : « Quaint Courtships » by Various
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