fellow creature

noun

1. a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.

Word History and Origins

Origin of fellow creature¹

First recorded in 1640–50

Example Sentences

I do this because people have a right to this procedure but also because this medical adage resonates with me: “May I never see in the patient anything but a fellow creature in pain.”

From Scientific American

If the amiable gentleman who wrote that kindly note could have known what intense happiness he was giving a fellow creature, I think he would devote his leisure hours, if he has any, to that amusement, for Jo valued the letter more than the money, because it was encouraging, and after years of effort it was so pleasant to find that she had learned to do something, though it was only to write a sensation story.

From Literature

On the one hand, lab-grown animal meat itself is not the kind of thing that would fall under the concept of fellow creature, regardless of whether the cells come from a cow, chicken, or kangaroo.

From Slate

Lessons learned: the bully was dependent on a fellow creature he’d barely noticed before, and might even have stamped on.

From The Guardian

It is not everyday, after all, that one finds oneself, upon awakening, hanging from the jaws of a fellow creature—even so caring and gentle a creature as myself.

From Literature