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English
Noun
creatur (plural creaturs)
- Pronunciation spelling of creature.
1859, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], “The Morning of the Trial”, in Adam Bede , volume III, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, book fifth, page 118:Frightened, very frightened, when they first brought her in; it was the first sight of the crowd and the judge, poor creatur.
1861, George Eliot [pseudonym; Mary Ann Evans], chapter VIII, in Silas Marner: The Weaver of Raveloe, Edinburgh, London: William Blackwood and Sons, →OCLC, part I, page 123:But it was observed with some irritation in the village, that anybody but a "blind creatur" like Marner would have seen the man prowling about, for how came he to leave his tinder-box in the ditch close by, if he hadn't been lingering there?
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Latin
Verb
creātur
- third-person singular present passive indicative of creō
Middle English
Etymology 1
Noun
creatur
- Alternative form of creature
Etymology 2
Noun
creatur
- Alternative form of creatour
Old French
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Etymology
Borrowed from Latin creātor.
Noun
creatur oblique singular, m (oblique plural creaturs, nominative singular creaturs, nominative plural creatur)
- creator (one who creates)
- 1958, The French Text of the Ancrene Riwle (based on the Cambridge manuscript, circa 1300)
Kar quele compareison est entre le creatour e sa creature?- For what comparison is there between the creator and his creature?
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