creatures

Noun

creature (plural creatures)

1. A living being, such as an animal, monster, or alien.
   • insects and other creatures
2. An unidentified, mysterious, and often monstrous animal or being.
   • When it comes to this creature you have to unlearn everything you've ever learned about physiology. For example, when its appendages emerge to feed, they do so using incredible bursts of growth, quite unlike anything ever seen before […]2015 February 25, Nathan Kuzack, The Anguisher Creature, Nathan Kuzack
3. (derogatory, sometimes) A human.
   • He's a creature of habit.
4. (uncommon) A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
   • Thoughts, my mindes creatures, often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.1633, John Donne, Sapho to Philænis
5. A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
   • "You know what I advise," said Mrs. Smith. "Ask Miss Dunstable to advance the money on the same security which the duke holds. She will be as safe then as he is now. And if you can arrange that, stand for the county against him; perhaps you may be beaten."
     "I shouldn't have a chance."
     "But it would...1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage

   Synonyms:

   puppet