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

  • (..) Hoskins. I know who you are. Then you know why I'm here. I've been working for two years on an application for those Raptors. They can hunt and kill that creature. But your program was to test their intelligence. Yeah, it was. And we did. And in the process, we learned something. (..)
    2015 Jurassic World