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)