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noun 
  1. A created thing, whether animate or inanimate.
  2. Anything created or not self-existent.
  3. A living being that moves of its own volition.
  4. An animal or human.
  5. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
''In order to remind the Kapos they were just his creatures, the concentration camp commandant regularly gave one of them an arbitrary lashing on the bare; any willfullness meant replacing by a new, humbler
Translations: 
  • Dutch: (t, nl, schepsel), (t, nl, creatuur)
  • French: íªtre(fr, créature, f, {{t+, fr)m
  • German: (t, de, Geschí¶pf, n), Kreatur(de)f
  • Italian: creatura(it)f
  • Spanish: creatura (archaic), criatura
Etymology: Existing since in the original sense of "a created thing", borrowed via from creaturaLatin, creatura, from creareLatin, creare.<ref name="COED-etym">The Concise Oxford English Dictionary Eleventh Edition</ref>


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