creek
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1.4
- noun
- /krik/
- US
:
arroyo
- I didn't have eyes for anything but a little creek of clear water that cut through the grass.
- rivers and creeks
- flows into the creek
- cross the creek
And we would just ride our bikes around Bowie's Creek all hot summer long.
- And we would just ride our bikes around Bowie's Creek all hot summer long.
- So they go down to like a Creek or like any open like wells.
- And then like the the Creek going up to it was winding like this.
- The sheer dress you wore kneeling in my dream at the creek's edge and the light swimming through it.
- We're just fresh off of our bleak Creek and we're just fresh.
- We're sucking it up, Rivers, creeks, stratibiaries, dumping.
Examples
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He could recite the Iliad in ancient Greek while fishing for trout in a rippling creek.
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Down where I sit and write, I watch the seasonal creek waxing and waning.
Academic text (2000) -
We got us a creek down the way.
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The creek is plenty deep enough to sail.
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Will parked the car at a dry creek bed several miles from the school.
Fiction book (1990) -
I tried to find the creek again, but I couldn't find it.
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They came up the creek on horses.
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Water sources to meet both uses were springs, creeks, and part of the Fuerabamba River.
Academic text (2017) -
The oysters had been held overnight in a creek on Staten Island.
Academic text (1990) -
My friends and I spent the afternoon fishing in the cool creek near my house.
Synonyms
244
1.0
A small, narrow flow of water on the ground
47
3.7
A smaller river or stream that flows into a larger one
37
4.5
A small fast stream of water in the countryside
23
1.0
A small stream of water that flows in fields or woods
15
4.6
A smaller river that flows into a larger river or lake
1
4.8
A channel, natural or man-made, where water flows like a river
1
4.9
A small stream that flows into a larger river
A very small stream that flows through a field or woods
A small narrow stream of water like a tiny brook
Idioms
An informal phrase to show hope that something will happen if nothing goes wrong
Compounds
A group of Native American tribes led by the Muskogee people in the southeastern United States before moving to Oklahoma
How Big
Surface Forms
Etymology
Creek comes from the Old Norse word kriki, which meant 'nook' or 'small corner' by the water. So a creek is like a small, narrow stream that fits into a little 'nook' of land, which is why it is smaller than a river.