English noun: creature |
1. | creature a living organism characterized by voluntary movement |
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| Synonyms | animal, animate being, beast, brute, fauna |
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| Broader (hypernym) | being, organism |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | acrodont, adult, biped, captive, chordate, conceptus, creepy-crawly, critter, darter, domestic animal, domesticated animal, ectotherm, embryo, feeder, female, fertilized egg, fictional animal, game, giant, herbivore, hexapod, homeotherm, homoiotherm, homotherm, insectivore, invertebrate, larva, male, marine animal, marine creature, mate, metazoan, migrator, molter, moulter, mutant, offspring, omnivore, peeper, pest, pet, pleurodont, poikilotherm, predator, predatory animal, prey, pureblood, purebred, quarry, racer, range animal, scavenger, sea animal, sea creature, stayer, stunt, survivor, thoroughbred, varment, varmint, work animal, young, zooplankton |
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| Part holonym | caput, face, head |
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| Member meronym | animal kingdom, Animalia, kingdom Animalia |
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| Substance holonym | animal tissue |
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| Domain category members | actinomycete, adult, all-devouring, big, body, bone, bone-covered, crested, crop, debone, diet, domesticate, domesticate, domesticise, domesticize, drench, epizootic, flesh-eating, free-swimming, full-grown, fully grown, graze, gregarious, grown, grownup, half-blooded, half-bred, half-breed, hispid, humaneness, insectivorous, meat-eating, micro-organism, microorganism, nose, organic structure, pasture, physical structure, phytophagic, phytophagous, phytophilous, plant-eating, reclaim, registered, ritual killing, sacrifice, schistosome dermatitis, side, sitter, social, stander, swimmer's itch, tame, tame, topknotted, tracking, trailing, transmitter, trap, tufted, unattached, unregistered, vector, wart, zoophagous |
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2. | creature (person) a human being; `wight' is an archaic term |
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| Synonyms | wight |
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| Broader (hypernym) | individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul |
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3. | creature (person) a person who is controlled by others and is used to perform unpleasant or dishonest tasks for someone else |
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| Synonyms | puppet, tool |
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| Broader (hypernym) | slave |
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