Other forms: creatures
A creature is any living being that is not a plant. A strange creature, sea creatures, all creatures.
It carries a faint suggestion of the unfamiliar, which is why deep-sea creature sounds right and deep-sea animal sounds flat. A creature of habit is somebody ruled by routine. Note that the Latin means a created thing, from creare, so every creature is a creation.
1nouncreatureAny living being that is not a plant.
“Tiny sea creatures live in the rock pools along the beach.”
creature is a living being.
Latin creatura means a created thing, from creare, to create. Create and creation come from the same making.
Proto-Indo-European
*ḱer-
Middle English
creature
English, today
creature
From Middle English creature. Middle English creature (“a created thing”), borrowed via Old French creature, from Latin creātūra, from creō. by surface analysis, create + -ure. Displaced native ġesċeaft. a doublet of craythur and critter.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA