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/ˈkɹiːk/ · noun
(British) A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary..
Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.
There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.
We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,— sound, sky, vegetation,— may have announced it.
Use creek when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Creek means (British) A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary..
Common synonyms include beck, brook, burn, stream.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.
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