creature

Definition

  • noun: an animal of any type
  • noun: something 'created' either animate or inanimate
  • + 'of'
  • synonyms: animal, man, instrument

Examples

  • The industry is still a 'creature of' the 1930s. [=it began in the 1930s and has not changed]

  • They say that these forests are filled with wild 'creatures'. [='beasts']

  • I'm a 'creature of habit'. [=I always do the same things in the same way]

Movie quotes

  • (..) (SIGHS) I haven't danced in years. I'd almost forgotten the feeling. (EXHALES) It's foolish, I suppose... for a creature like me to hope... that one day he might earn your affection. I don't know. Really? You think (..)
    2017 Beauty and the Beast
  • (..) (BLOWS) How amazing! It was her cruelest trick of all. It was just another curse. The outside world has no place for a creature like me... but it can for you. Think of the one place you've always wanted to see. Now find it in your mind's eye. Then feel it in your heart. (..)
    2017 Beauty and the Beast