Definizione monolingua

creature

creature (plural creatures)

1. (now rare) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
   • 1633, John Donne, ""Sapho to Philænis"":

     Thoughts, my mindes creatures, often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.

   • 1646, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, I.10:

     the natural truth of God is an artificial erection of Man, and the Creator himself but a subtile invention of the Creature.

2. A living being; an animal or human.
3. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
   • 1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford 2003, p. 240:

     they, too, despite the appearance of being creatures rather than creators of the Union, could assert the prior sovereignty of their states, for each had formed a state constitution […] before petitioning Congress for admission to the Union.

Definizione dizionario creature

	creatura
	A living organism characterized by voluntary movement.

creature

essere

Altri significati:

(archaic, chiefly literary and philosophy) Alternative spelling of creature.