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Creature vs Spokescreature - What's the difference?

creature | spokescreature |

As nouns the difference between creature and spokescreature

is that creature is (archaic|chiefly|literary|and|philosophy) while spokescreature is a creature used as a spokesperson.

creature

English

Alternative forms

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Noun

(en noun)
  • A created thing, whether animate or inanimate; a creation.
  • * 1633 , (John Donne), "Sapho to Philænis":
    • Thoughts, my mindes creatures , often are with thee, / But I, their maker, want their libertie.
  • * 1646 , (Thomas Browne), Pseudodoxia Epidemica , I.10:
    • the natural truth of God is an artificial erection of Man, and the Creator himself but a subtile invention of the Creature .
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=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.}}
  • A living being; an animal or human.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-08, volume=407, issue=8839, page=55, magazine=(The Economist)
    • , title= Obama goes troll-hunting , passage=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.}}
  • A being subservient to or dependent upon another.
  • * 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry for Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 240:
    • they, too, despite the appearance of being creatures rather than creators of the Union, could assert the prior sovereignty of their states, for each had formed a state constitution […] before petitioning Congress for admission to the Union.

    Usage notes

    * For an explanation of the specialised use of the alternative spelling ''creäture'', see . * Adjectives often applied to "creature": evil, living, little, mythical, poor, strange, beautiful, wild, rational, marine, social, legendary, good, mysterious, curious, magical, dangerous, mythological, bizarre, monstrous, unhappy, huge, lowly, ugly, happy, unique, odd, weird, demonic, divine, imaginary, hideous, fabulous, nocturnal, angelic, political.

    Hyponyms

    * See also

    Related terms

    {{rel3, create , created , creates , creating , creation , creations , creative , creatively , creator , creators , creatrices , creatrix}}

    Derived terms

    * creature comfort

    References

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    spokescreature

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A creature used as a spokesperson.
  • *{{quote-news, year=2009, date=April 22, author=Stuart Elliott, title=Not Daffy or Donald, but Still Aflac’s Rising Star, work=New York Times citation
    • , passage=The duck is the spokescreature for Aflac, formally the American Family Life Assurance Company of Columbus. }}
  • * 2011 , Dominic Pettman, Human Error: Species-Being and Media Machines (page 70)
    • The bee, acting in his capacity as spokescreature for the swarming things, adds his buzzing voice to the proceedings