Entry Word: creek

Function: noun

Meaning: 1 a natural body of running water smaller than a river <the shallow creek that runs in back of our house>

Synonyms brook, brooklet, rill, rivulet, run [chiefly Midland], streamlet

Related Words freshet, runoff; river, stream, watercourse, waterway; canal, millrace, millstream, race

2 chiefly Britisha part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline <explored many of the creeks along the Cornwall coast of England> — see gulf 1