creature

Meaning

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

Synonyms

being

animal

🐾

living being

beast

living thing

organism

thing

creation

brute

minion

wight

human

animate being

fauna

man

👨

puppet

human being

mortal

tool

myrmidon

bird

🐦

living things

soul

mammal

manufacture

mass

mite

monster

object

person

🧑‍🦱

plant

🌱

poison

poor

potion

product

progeny

public

substance

succor

support

tellurian

underling

vertebrate

wild animal

zooid

all creation

something created

conveniency

biology

imaginary being

Translations

créature

creatura

criatura

Geschöpf

criatura

πλάσμα

schepsel

Kreatur

wezen

être

Wesen

yaratık

δημιούργημα

essere

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈkɹiːt͡ʃə/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: creature

In summary

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 and critter.