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

  • (..) Guardian Angels... ...or the goddamn Salvation Army... ...get them off the street and off the front page. They say it was just one guy. Or a creature. It was some asshole in a costume. - Yeah? - This guy did deliver us... ...one of the city's biggest crime lords. No one takes the law (..)
    2005 Batman Begins