Creek

Quick meaning: Creek is a noun meaning (British) A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.

Meaning

(British) A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.

More Meanings

1. (British) The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
2. Any turn or winding.
3. (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.

Example Sentences

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.

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.

Word Forms

• creeks

Synonyms for creek

Depending on context, synonyms include beck, brook, burn, stream, run, branch.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include brook, stream, river, lake, ria, watershed.

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