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

  • (..) like fireflies or glowworms. It's incredible. Cool. Glow... birds. Have you seen these creatures before? Yeah, in the museum, but they were fossilized. These things have been extinct for over million years. Where are they going? (..)
    2008 Journey to the Center of the Earth