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(creatures) 1. You can refer to any living thing that is not a plant as a creature, especially when it is of an unknown or unfamiliar kind. People also refer to imaginary animals and beings as creatures. Alaskan Eskimos believe that every living creature possesses a spirit... The garden is surrounded by a hedge in which many small creatures can live... = being N-COUNT 2. If you say that someone is a particular type of creature, you are focusing on a particular quality they have. She’s charming, a sweet creature... She was a creature of the emotions, rather than reason. a creature of habit: see habit N-COUNT: with supp
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noun Etymology: Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Late Latin creatura, from Latin creatus, past participle of creare Date: 14th century 1. something created either animate or inanimate: as a. a lower animal; especially a farm animal b. a human being c. a being of anomalous or uncertain aspect or nature ~s of fantasy 2. one that is the servile dependent or tool of another ; instrument • creatural adjective • ~hood noun • ~liness noun • ~ly adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. 1 a an animal, as distinct from a human being. b any living being (we are all God's creatures). 2 a person of a specified kind (poor creature). 3 a person owing status to and obsequiously subservient to another. 4 anything created; a creation. Phrases and idioms creature comforts material comforts such as good food, warmth, etc. creature of habit a person set in an unvarying routine. Derivatives creaturely adj. Etymology: ME f. OF f. LL creatura (as CREATE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. создание, творение, живое существо creatures from outer space —- существа из космоса, инопланетяне all creatures great and small —- все твари, большие и малые 2. человек, создание lovely creature —- прелестное создание poor creature —- бедное создание good creature —- доброе создание, добрая душа not a creature would help him —- ни одна душа не хотела помочь ему 3. обыкн. презр. тварь 4. тварь; животное 5. ам. домашнее животное 6. креатура, ставленник; слепой исполнитель, орудие в (чьих-л.) руках 7. спиртные напитки, особ. виски ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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comforts а) земные блага б) mil. мелкие предметы личного потребления (папиросы и т.п.) CREATURE noun 1) создание, творение 2) живое существо 3) тварь 4) креатура, ставленник 5) joc. зелье, спиртные напитки - creature comforts Syn: see animal ...Англо-русский словарь
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~ n 1 »LIVING THING« anything that is living, but not a plant (The crocodile is a strange-looking creature. | living creature) (He has great respect for all living creatures.) 2 »STRANGE« a strange and sometimes frightening living thing (creatures from outer space) 3 stupid/adorable/horrid etc creature someone who has a particular character or quality ("Lady Jones is a charming creature", he sighed.) 4 »SB CONTROLLED BY STH« someone who is controlled by, or completely in the power of a particular person or organization + of (He was a creature of the military government.) 5 a creature of habit someone who always does things in the same way or at the same times 6 »STH MADE OR INVENTED« something, especially something bad, that has been made or invented by a particular person or organization ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- c.1280, from L. creatura "thing created," from pp. stem of creare "create." Meaning "anything that ministers to man's comforts" (1614) led to jocular use for "whisky" (1638). ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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