transcription, транскрипция: [ kri:tʃə(r) ]
( 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
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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
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