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# critter

«critter» in Mova's school dictionary: **any creature or animal, especially a small one** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a critter, critters)

### meaning for a pupil

1) (informal, mainly US) A critter is any creature or animal, especially a small one. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critter/#m1)

2) (informal) A critter can be a person, said in a joking or fond way. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critter/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

A friendly American word heard in cartoons, westerns and from farmers: «Some critter's been in the bins». In Canada and the US people speak of woodland critters like raccoons and skunks. It comes from «creature».

### examples

- Some critter dug up the vegetable patch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critter/#x1)
- The woods are full of little critters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critter/#x2)
- Squirrels and chipmunks are cute critters. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critter/#x3)
- «You poor critter,» said the farmer to the lamb. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critter/#x4)
- We found a slimy critter under the rock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critter/#x5)
- The kids collected critters in jars and let them go. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critter/#x6)

### note

Informal; in school writing use «creature» or «animal». Plural: critters.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «critter» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/C/critter/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.