fellow creature

American  

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of fellow creature

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

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

His note says that neither of the items was harmed, and a second printed note included a quote that begins: “I expect to pass through this world but once. Any good thing, therefore, that I can do, or any kindness that I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now.”

From Washington Post