creek | Definition of creek

Synonyms and Antonyms of creek

1 a natural body of running water smaller than a river

the shallow creek that runs in back of our house

Synonyms of creek

beck [British], bourn (or bourne), brook, brooklet, burn [British], gill [British], rill, rivulet, run [chiefly Midland], runlet, runnel, streamlet

Words Related to creek

arroyo, billabong [Australian], fresh, freshet, runoff

bayou, coulee, slough (also slew), stream, wash

canal, channel, cut, cutoff, gut, kill, millrace, millstream, race, watercourse, waterway

affluent, branch, confluent, distributary, influent, tributary

2 chiefly British a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline

explored many of the creeks along the Cornwall coast of England

Synonyms of creek

arm, bay, bight, cove, embayment, estuary, firth, fjord (also fiord), gulf, inlet, loch [Scottish]

Words Related to creek

harbor, port, road(s), roadstead

narrow, sound, strait

backwater, slough (also slew)