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"text": "insects and other creatures",
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"ref": "1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:",
"text": "But what would be the sentiment of uppertendom, when it should be rumored that the beautiful young creature, of the proud Clarence Delwood's choice, had stooped so low, as to maintain herself by her own hands?",
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"ref": "1960, William Bittle Gray, Creatures of the Sea, New York : W. Funk:",
"text": "Urologists often want live sea horses for study of kidney disorders, for the sea horse is one of the few marine creatures with functioning kidneys.",
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"ref": "1963, Daniel Pratt Mannix, All Creatures Great and Small:",
"text": "But he began writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and Colliers, and having finally chosen to become a journalist, has written All Creatures Great and Small about his first love[…]",
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"ref": "2018 June 18, Christine M. Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 27:",
"text": "One answer to that is “No”: sounds exist in the perspective of creatures who can hear, although sound waves would still be bouncing around in the absence of such creatures.",
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"ref": "2019 February 7, James Olstein, Odd Science – Incredible Creatures, Pavilion Children's, →ISBN:",
"text": "Creatures are fascinating. From miniscule bugs to great beasts of the deep, ferocious dinosaurs to cuddly-looking pandas.",
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"code": "ko",
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"roman": "saengmul",
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"roman": "jandık",
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"ref": "1859, Ferna Vale, Natalie; or, A Gem Among the Sea-Weeds:",
"text": "But what would be the sentiment of uppertendom, when it should be rumored that the beautiful young creature, of the proud Clarence Delwood's choice, had stooped so low, as to maintain herself by her own hands?",
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"ref": "1960, William Bittle Gray, Creatures of the Sea, New York : W. Funk:",
"text": "Urologists often want live sea horses for study of kidney disorders, for the sea horse is one of the few marine creatures with functioning kidneys.",
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"ref": "1963, Daniel Pratt Mannix, All Creatures Great and Small:",
"text": "But he began writing articles for The Saturday Evening Post, Esquire, and Colliers, and having finally chosen to become a journalist, has written All Creatures Great and Small about his first love[…]",
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"ref": "2018 June 18, Christine M. Korsgaard, Fellow Creatures: Our Obligations to the Other Animals, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 27:",
"text": "One answer to that is “No”: sounds exist in the perspective of creatures who can hear, although sound waves would still be bouncing around in the absence of such creatures.",
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"ref": "2019 February 7, James Olstein, Odd Science – Incredible Creatures, Pavilion Children's, →ISBN:",
"text": "Creatures are fascinating. From miniscule bugs to great beasts of the deep, ferocious dinosaurs to cuddly-looking pandas.",
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"ref": "2015 February 25, Nathan Kuzack, The Anguisher Creature, Nathan Kuzack:",
"text": "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 […]",
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"ref": "2020 October 24, Mike Jason, The Creature: What Is It?, Mike Jason:",
"text": "Tammy and Cherise heard the creature's roar. “I think they got him,” Tammy said. “See, I told you. Everything's going to be alright.” Cherise smiled. The beast swung its other, human-like arm, knocking the entire barricade down, […]",
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"ref": "2022 November 8, Kay Chronister, Desert Creatures, Erewhon, →ISBN:",
"text": "The group stood motionless as an entire stream of creatures emerged from the canyons and then passed through, one after another. All were formed from the same undead materials, limbs and trunks and heads conveying nauseatingly lush […]",
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"ref": "1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:",
"text": "She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.",
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"ref": "2013 June 8, “Obama goes troll-hunting”, in The Economist, volume 407, number 8839, page 55:",
"text": "According to this saga of intellectual-property misanthropy, these creatures [patent trolls] roam the business world, buying up patents and then using them to demand extravagant payouts from companies they accuse of infringing them. Often, their victims pay up rather than face the costs of a legal battle.",
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"ref": "1633, John Donne, Sapho to Philænis:",
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{
"ref": "1646, Thomas Browne, chapter I, in Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], London: […] T[homas] H[arper] for Edward Dod, […], →OCLC, 1st book, page 10:",
"text": "the natural truth of God is an artificial erection of Man, and the Creator himself but a subtile invention of the Creature.",
"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1718, John CLAGGETT, Arianism Anatomized: or, Animadversions on Mr. Thomas Chubb's book, intitled, The Supremacy of the Father asserted, etc, page 35:",
"text": "Must not then all understanding Creatures center in their Creator, as in the highest and best of Beings? And must not this Creator then be eſſentially God? What Infatuation then is it, that leads Men to think of a Creature-Creator?",
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"ref": "1857, Frederick William Faber, The Creator and the Creature: Or the Wonders of Divine Love, page 92:",
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"ref": "1878, Mary (the virgin.), Spiritual exercises of Mary, revised by the bp. of Nottingham [E.G. Bagshawe]., page 194:",
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"type": "quote"
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"ref": "1994 January 1, Shirley C. Guthrie, Christian Doctrine, Westminster John Knox Press, →ISBN, page 169:",
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"ref": "2020 August 28, Samuel D. Ferguson, The Spirit and Relational Anthropology in Paul, Mohr Siebeck, →ISBN, page 98:",
"text": "Several aspects of the creature-Creator relation can be drawn from Rom 1:18–32 and other Pauline texts. First, the relation between man-as-creature and God-the-Creator is more than a “static/positional” reality.",
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"ref": "1861, Anthony Trollope, Framley Parsonage:",
"text": "\"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.\"\n\"I shouldn't have a chance.\"\n\"But it would show that you are not a creature in the duke's hands. That's my advice,\" said Mrs. Smith, with much spirit; […]",
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"ref": "1988, James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom, Oxford, published 2003, page 240:",
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"code": "sq",
"lang": "Albanian",
"sense": "living being",
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"masculine"
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"sense": "living being",
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"sense": "living being",
"word": "էակ"
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{
"code": "rup",
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"sense": "living being",
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"code": "az",
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"sense": "living being",
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"sense": "living being",
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{
"code": "bn",
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"sense": "living being",
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"code": "bn",
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{
"code": "bn",
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"roman": "prani",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "প্রাণী"
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{
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"roman": "mokholuk",
"sense": "living being",
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{
"code": "bg",
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"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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{
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "sǎzdánie",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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{
"code": "bg",
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"roman": "tvar",
"sense": "living being",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "my",
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"roman": "satta.wa",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "သတ္တဝါ"
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{
"code": "ca",
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"sense": "living being",
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"feminine"
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{
"code": "ceb",
"lang": "Cebuano",
"sense": "living being",
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{
"code": "yue",
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"lang": "Chinese Cantonese",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "生物"
},
{
"code": "cmn",
"lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
"roman": "shēngwù",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "生物"
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{
"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "living being",
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"masculine"
],
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"code": "cs",
"lang": "Czech",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "stvoření"
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{
"code": "da",
"lang": "Danish",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "væsen"
},
{
"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
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"code": "nl",
"lang": "Dutch",
"sense": "living being",
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"neuter"
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{
"code": "et",
"lang": "Estonian",
"sense": "living being",
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{
"code": "fi",
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"sense": "living being",
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{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "living being",
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "créature"
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{
"code": "fr",
"lang": "French",
"sense": "living being",
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"masculine"
],
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{
"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "criatura"
},
{
"code": "ka",
"lang": "Georgian",
"roman": "arseba",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "არსება"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Wesen"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Lebewesen"
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{
"code": "de",
"english": "mythical creature",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "Fabelwesen"
},
{
"code": "got",
"lang": "Gothic",
"roman": "gaskafts",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "𐌲𐌰𐍃𐌺𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "plásma",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "πλάσμα"
},
{
"code": "el",
"lang": "Greek",
"roman": "dimioúrgima",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"neuter"
],
"word": "δημιούργημα"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "yetsúr",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "יְצוּר"
},
{
"code": "he",
"lang": "Hebrew",
"roman": "biryá",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "בִּרְיָה"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "jantu",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "जंतु"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "prāṇī",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "प्राणी"
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{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "jānvar",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "जानवर"
},
{
"code": "hi",
"lang": "Hindi",
"roman": "maxlūq",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "मख़्लूक़"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "teremtmény"
},
{
"code": "is",
"lang": "Icelandic",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "skepna"
},
{
"code": "id",
"lang": "Indonesian",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "makhluk"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "créatúr"
},
{
"code": "ga",
"lang": "Irish",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "dúil"
},
{
"code": "it",
"lang": "Italian",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "creatura"
},
{
"alt": "いきもの",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "ikimono",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "生き物"
},
{
"alt": "せいぶつ",
"code": "ja",
"lang": "Japanese",
"roman": "seibutsu",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "生物"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "tuyndy",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "туынды"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "jandy",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "жанды"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "jaratylys",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "жаратылыс"
},
{
"code": "kk",
"lang": "Kazakh",
"roman": "maqūlyq",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "мақұлық"
},
{
"code": "km",
"lang": "Khmer",
"roman": "sat",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "សត្វ"
},
{
"alt": "生物",
"code": "ko",
"lang": "Korean",
"roman": "saengmul",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "생물"
},
{
"code": "ckb",
"lang": "Central Kurdish",
"roman": "zindewer",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "زندەوەر"
},
{
"code": "kmr",
"lang": "Northern Kurdish",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "mexlûq"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "jandık",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "жандык"
},
{
"code": "ky",
"lang": "Kyrgyz",
"roman": "makuluk",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "макулук"
},
{
"code": "lo",
"lang": "Lao",
"roman": "sat",
"sense": "living being",
"word": "ສັດ"
},
{
"code": "la",
"lang": "Latin",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "creātūra"
},
{
"code": "lv",
"lang": "Latvian",
"sense": "living being",
"tags": [
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],
"word": "creature"
}
Download raw JSONL data for creature meaning in All languages combined (37.6kB)
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"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'creature oblique singular or', originally 'creature oblique singular or f'",
"path": [
"creature"
],
"section": "Old French",
"subsection": "noun",
"title": "creature",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1089",
"msg": "suspicious unhandled suffix in Old French: 'creature oblique singular or', originally 'creature oblique singular or f'",
"path": [
"creature"
],
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"subsection": "noun",
"title": "creature",
"trace": ""
}
{
"called_from": "form_descriptions/1147",
"msg": "suspicious related form tags ['feminine', 'canonical']: 'creature oblique singular or' in 'creature oblique singular, f (oblique plural creatures, nominative singular creature, nominative plural creatures)'",
"path": [
"creature"
],
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