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Synonyms for creek
krik, krɪkcreek

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Wiktionary3.5 / 2 votes

  1. creeknoun

    Synonyms:
    stream, beck, brook, burn

  2. creeknoun

    A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.

    The chieftain was well versed in Creek history.

    Synonyms:
    burn, stream, beck, brook

  3. creeknoun

    A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.

    Synonyms:
    burn, brook, beck, stream

  4. creeknoun

    Any turn or winding.

    Synonyms:
    beck, stream, brook, burn

Princeton's WordNet3.0 / 2 votes

  1. brook, creeknoun

    a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)

    "the creek dried up every summer"

    Synonyms:
    brook

  2. Creeknoun

    any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

    Synonyms:
    brook

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Dictionary of English Synonymes0.0 / 0 votes

  1. creeknoun

    Synonyms:
    inlet, cove, bight, small bay

  2. creeknoun

    Synonyms:
    rivulet, small river

Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words0.0 / 0 votes

  1. creeknoun

    Synonyms:
    brook, rivulet, race, runlet, streamlet, runnel, bourn, burn, cove, bight

PPDB, the paraphrase database0.0 / 0 votes

  1. List of paraphrases for "creek":

    brook, ruisseau, stream, stann, river, creeks

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How to use creek in a sentence?

  1. Mathew Byrne:

    The river hasn't run since 2017, there's no water going through the creek. It's pretty sad.

  2. Martin Short:

    First, let me say what an honor Schitts Creek is for me to not be there tonight.

  3. Ban Nampai village chief:

    I think the future of the river is dire. This is just the beginning, with more dams, the once powerful Mekong River river will become just a small creek.

  4. Manfred Kittel:

    We just have to wait and see how the fish mature in the hatchery and what the environmental conditions look like next winter, the plan theoretically is to put them back in the creek hoping there is enough water to support them.

  5. Charles Watson:

    Nancy, certainly more questions than answers. We heard in the week that the FBI had discovered Brian Laundrie's remains at the Environmental Creek Park. Not far from the Laundrie's North Port home here. An autopsy was completed on that body -- results came back inconclusive. Remains are being sent to a forensic anthropologist who will sift through the remains and figure out any clues to try to determine cause of death, here at Laundrie's home in North Port, it has been quiet today. This morning we got a first look at the Laundrie parents leaving the home together, they were in a hurry, jumped into a red pickup truck and left. They sped off.


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