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/ˈstɹiːm/ · noun
A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks..
Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
European adventurers found themselves within a watery world, a tapestry of streams, channels, wetlands, lakes and lush riparian meadows enriched by floodwaters from the Mississippi River.
He poured the milk in a thin stream from the jug to the glass.
to swim against the stream
Her constant nagging was to him a stream of abuse.
With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.
A new stream of migrants is leaving the continent. It threatens to become a torrent if the debt crisis continues to worsen.
Haredi Judaism is a stream of Orthodox Judaism characterized by rejection of modern secular culture.
Use stream when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Stream means A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks..
Common synonyms include beck, brook, burn, flow.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Now we plunged into a deep shade with the boughs lacing each other overhead, and crossed dainty, rustic bridges over the cold trout-streams, the boards giving back the clatter of our horses' feet:[…].
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