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 • May 4, 2022

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 • Feb. 4, 2021

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

From The Guardian • Apr. 21, 2020

We help a fellow creature on his path.

From Time Magazine Archive

With eyes for the most part downcast and, if ever they lighted on a fellow creature, at once and furtively averted, Bernard hastened across the roof.

From "Brave New World" by Aldous Huxley