"spokescreature" meaning in English

See spokescreature in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: spokescreatures [plural]
Etymology: Blend of spokesperson + creature. Etymology templates: {{blend|en|spokesperson|creature}} Blend of spokesperson + creature Head templates: {{en-noun}} spokescreature (plural spokescreatures)
  1. A creature used as a spokesperson.
    Sense id: en-spokescreature-en-noun-XoiP1vYs Categories (other): English blends, English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries

Inflected forms

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spokesperson",
        "3": "creature"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of spokesperson + creature",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of spokesperson + creature.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spokescreatures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spokescreature (plural spokescreatures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English blends",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 April 22, Stuart Elliott, “Not Daffy or Donald, but Still Aflac’s Rising Star”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "The duck is the spokescreature for Aflac, formally the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Dominic Pettman, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines, page 70:",
          "text": "The bee, acting in his capacity as spokescreature for the swarming things, adds his buzzing voice to the proceedings[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A creature used as a spokesperson."
      ],
      "id": "en-spokescreature-en-noun-XoiP1vYs",
      "links": [
        [
          "creature",
          "creature"
        ],
        [
          "spokesperson",
          "spokesperson"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spokescreature"
}
{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "spokesperson",
        "3": "creature"
      },
      "expansion": "Blend of spokesperson + creature",
      "name": "blend"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Blend of spokesperson + creature.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "spokescreatures",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "spokescreature (plural spokescreatures)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English blends",
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2009 April 22, Stuart Elliott, “Not Daffy or Donald, but Still Aflac’s Rising Star”, in New York Times:",
          "text": "The duck is the spokescreature for Aflac, formally the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Dominic Pettman, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines, page 70:",
          "text": "The bee, acting in his capacity as spokescreature for the swarming things, adds his buzzing voice to the proceedings[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A creature used as a spokesperson."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "creature",
          "creature"
        ],
        [
          "spokesperson",
          "spokesperson"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "spokescreature"
}

Download raw JSONL data for spokescreature meaning in English (1.3kB)


This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-30 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-21 using wiktextract (fef8596 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.