fellow creature

Meanings

1. 1
   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.

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.

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