noun
Meanings
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noun
another person or living being regarded as sharing one's nature, condition, or claim to humane treatment
She would not leave a fellow creature injured by the roadside.
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Etymology
A compound of fellow, used attributively for one of the same kind or condition, and creature, originally 'a created being.' Fellow creature is recorded from the mid-seventeenth century and can include either another human being or, more broadly, another living being viewed as kindred.