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a natural body of running water smaller than a river<the shallow creek that runs in back of our house>Synonymsbrook, brooklet, rill, rivulet, run [chiefly Midland], streamletRelated Wordsfreshet, runoff; river, stream, watercourse, waterway; canal, millrace, millstream, race
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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>— see gulf 1
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