creature

Bedeutung

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.

Ausgesprochen als (IPA)

/ˈkɹiːt͡ʃə/

Etymologie

From Middle English creature in the original sense of “a created thing”, borrowed via Old French creature, criature, from Latin creātūra, from creō. Displaced native Old English ġesċeaft. Doublet of craythur, critter, crescent, croissant, crew, recreation, and recruit.