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Creature

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Noun

1. animal, animate being, beast, brute, creature, fauna

a living organism characterized by voluntary movement

2. creature, wight

a human being; wight' is an archaic term

3. creature, puppet, tool

a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Creature

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noun
1. 
a living being, esp an animal
2. 
something that has been created, whether animate or inanimate
a creature of the imagination
3. 
a human being; person: used as a term of scorn, pity, or endearment
4. 
a person who is dependent upon another; tool or puppet

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Creature

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noun
1. 
anything created, animate or inanimate
2. 
an animate or living being
; esp.,
a.  US Chiefly Dialectal
a domestic animal, specif. a horse
b. 
a human being
often used in a patronizing, contemptuous, commiserating, or endearing sense
c. 
a strange or imaginary being
3. 
one completely dominated by another or dependent on another

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Creature

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n.
1.
a. A living being, especially an animal: land creatures; microscopic creatures in a drop of water.
b. A human.
c. An imaginary or fantastical being: mythological creatures; a creature from outer space.
2. One dependent on or subservient to another.
3. Something created.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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