'Creature comforts' definitions:
Definition of 'creature comforts'
From: WordNet
noun
Things that make you comfortable and at ease; "all the comforts of home" [syn: comforts, creature comforts, amenities, conveniences]
Definition of 'Creature comforts'
From: GCIDE
- Creature \Crea"ture\ (kr[=e]"t[=u]r; 135), n. [F. cr['e]ature, L. creatura. See Create.]
- 1. Anything created; anything not self-existent; especially, any being created with life; an animal; a man. [1913 Webster]
- He asked water, a creature so common and needful that it was against the law of nature to deny him. --Fuller. [1913 Webster]
- God's first creature was light. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- On earth, join, all ye creatures, to extol Him first, him last, him midst, and without end. --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- And most attractive is the fair result Of thought, the creature of a polished mind. --Cowper. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A human being, in pity, contempt, or endearment; as, a poor creature; a pretty creature. [1913 Webster]
- The world hath not a sweeter creature. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- 3. A person who owes his rise and fortune to another; a servile dependent; an instrument; a tool. [1913 Webster]
- A creature of the queen's, Lady Anne Bullen. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Both Charles himself and his creature, Laud. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 4. A general term among farmers for horses, oxen, etc. [1913 Webster]
- Creature comforts, those objects, as food, drink, and shelter, which minister to the comfort of the body. [1913 Webster +PJC]