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

Lawrence repeatedly expressed his abhorrence of physical contact with any fellow creature, female or male.

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