creature

Etymology
From in the original sense of “a created thing”, borrowed via, , from , from. Displaced native. .

Noun

 * 1) A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
 * 2) An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
 * 3)  A human.
 * 4)  A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
 * 5) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1) An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
 * 2)  A human.
 * 3)  A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
 * 4) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1)  A human.
 * 2)  A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
 * 3) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1)  A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
 * 2) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1)  A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
 * 2) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
 * 1) A being subservient to or dependent upon another.

Usage notes

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

Hyponyms

 * See also Thesaurus:creature

Collocations

 * Adjectives often applied to "creature": evil, living, little, mythical, poor, strange, beautiful, wild, rational, marine, social, legendary, good, mysterious, curious, magical, dangerous, mythological, bizarre, monstrous, unhappy, huge, lowly, ugly, happy, unique, odd, weird, demonic, divine, imaginary, hideous, fabulous, nocturnal, angelic, political.

Translations

 * Albanian: gjalles, gjallese
 * Arabic:, , كَائِن حَيّ
 * Aramaic:
 * Classical Syriac: ܒܪܝܬܐ, ܚܝܘܬܐ, ܥܒܕܐ
 * Armenian: արարած,
 * Aromanian: hiintsã
 * Azerbaijani:
 * Belarusian: істо́та, стварэ́нне
 * Bengali:, জীব, ,
 * Bulgarian:, ,
 * Burmese:
 * Catalan: creatura
 * Cebuano: mananap
 * Chinese:
 * Cantonese: 生物
 * Mandarin:
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:, ,
 * Esperanto: estulo
 * Estonian: olend
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Galician: criatura
 * Georgian: არსება
 * German:, ,
 * Gothic: 𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃
 * Greek: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi:, , , मख़्लूक़
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: skepna
 * Indonesian:
 * Irish: créatúr, dúil
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: ,
 * Kazakh: туынды, жанды, жаратылыс, мақұлық
 * Khmer:
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Central Kurdish: زندەوەر
 * Northern Kurdish:
 * Kyrgyz:, макулук
 * Lao:
 * Latin:
 * Latvian:
 * Lithuanian: padaras, būtybė
 * Macedonian: суштество, битие
 * Malay:
 * Mongolian:
 * Cyrillic:, бутээл
 * Norwegian:
 * Bokmål: skapning
 * Nynorsk: skapning
 * Old English: ġesceaft
 * Old Occitan: creatura
 * Pali: satta, jantu
 * Pashto: مخلوق
 * Persian: ,
 * Polish:, ,
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:, ,
 * Russian:, , ,
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Scots: craitur
 * Scottish Gaelic: creutair
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: би́ће, ство̏р, створе́ње
 * Roman:, ,
 * Slovak: tvor, stvorenie
 * Slovene: stvor
 * Spanish:
 * Swahili:
 * Swedish:
 * Tajik:, махлуқ
 * Tatar:
 * Thai:
 * Tocharian B: onolme
 * Turkish: ,
 * Turkmen: mahluk
 * Ukrainian:, тварь, , ство́ріння
 * Urdu: مخلوق, جانور
 * Uyghur: مەخلۇق
 * Uzbek: mahluq
 * Vietnamese: ,
 * Volapük:
 * Welsh:
 * West Frisian: skepsel
 * Yiddish: באַשעפֿעניש, בריאה

Etymology
Borrowed from.

Noun

 * 1) creature, being

Etymology 1
From, , from ; equivalent to.

Noun

 * 1) Something that has been created; an entity or object.
 * 2) A living being or ; an animal or beast.
 * 3) A human being often as a term of self-abasement.
 * 4)  The whole world, the totality of existence.
 * 5)  The process of making or creation.

Etymology
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Noun

 * 1) ; being; entity