CREATURE COMFORTS Definition & Meaning

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creature comforts

plural noun

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

creature comforts

plural noun

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

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.”

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Origin of creature comforts¹

First recorded in 1650–60

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But beneath her white guilt she’s ultimately just as attached to the creature comforts of American wealth as the rest of her family.

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Homes can be connected to any city’s electric grid and sewer line, and outfitted with the same creature comforts as any other modern-day abode.

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For now, that might mean changing your budget and acknowledging that you might be spending more on creature comforts.

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“The moment you put yourself in a first-class hotel, you become walled off from life, in a world devoted to creature comforts,” Mr. Frommer told The Los Angeles Times in 2009.

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It helped that he was back in his marble bunker, surrounded by creature comforts.

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