creature comforts

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plural noun

things that contribute to bodily comfort and ease, as food, warmth, a comfortable bed, hot water for bathing, etc.

Origin of creature comforts

First recorded in 1650–60

Words nearby creature comforts

creativity, creator, creatural, creature, creature comfort, creature comforts, creature feature, creaturely, CREB, crèche, Crécy

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Example sentences from the Web for creature comforts

All thoughts as to creature-comforts were over with her now for ever.
The Eustace Diamonds|Anthony Trollope
So far as creature-comforts are concerned, the traveller is practically in London.
Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea.|Anonymous
But instead, as the price of obedience to a will outside their own, they had received a thousand creature-comforts.
Is civilization a disease?|Stanton Coit
They had it fitted up with a bed, and other “creature-comforts” of a truly Crusoe-like description.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847|Various

Tobacco-fumes exuded from the key-hole, and I doubt not other creature-comforts lent the muddled man their aid.
The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper|Martin Farquhar Tupper

British Dictionary definitions for creature comforts

creature comforts

pl n

material things or luxuries that help to provide for one's bodily comfort

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Cultural definitions for creature comforts

creature comforts

The basic physical things that make life pleasant — good food, warm clothing, etc.: “The poor frequently lack the creature comforts the rest of us take for granted.”

单词	creature comforts
释义	creature comforts SEE SYNONYMS FOR creature comforts ON THESAURUS.COM plural noun things that contribute to bodily comfort and ease, as food, warmth, a comfortable bed, hot water for bathing, etc. Origin of creature comforts First recorded in 1650–60 Words nearby creature comforts creativity, creator, creatural, creature, creature comfort, creature comforts, creature feature, creaturely, CREB, crèche, Crécy Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for creature comforts All thoughts as to creature-comforts were over with her now for ever. The Eustace Diamonds\|Anthony Trollope So far as creature-comforts are concerned, the traveller is practically in London. Rivers of Great Britain. The Thames, from Source to Sea.\|Anonymous But instead, as the price of obedience to a will outside their own, they had received a thousand creature-comforts. Is civilization a disease?\|Stanton Coit They had it fitted up with a bed, and other “creature-comforts” of a truly Crusoe-like description. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 377, March 1847\|Various Tobacco-fumes exuded from the key-hole, and I doubt not other creature-comforts lent the muddled man their aid. The Complete Prose Works of Martin Farquhar Tupper\|Martin Farquhar Tupper British Dictionary definitions for creature comforts creature comforts pl n material things or luxuries that help to provide for one's bodily comfort Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to creature comforts fare, amenities, comforts, conveniences Cultural definitions for creature comforts creature comforts The basic physical things that make life pleasant — good food, warm clothing, etc.: “The poor frequently lack the creature comforts the rest of us take for granted.” The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy, Third Edition Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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creature comforts

plural noun

Origin of creature comforts

Words nearby creature comforts

Example sentences from the Web for creature comforts

British Dictionary definitions for creature comforts

pl n

Words related to creature comforts

Cultural definitions for creature comforts