Synonyms of beck

beck

noun

ˈbek 

British

as in brook

a natural body of running water smaller than a river

when we were lads, we raced our toy boats in the narrow beck that bordered the lane

Synonyms & Similar Words

• brook
• creek
• stream
• rill
• tributary
• rivulet
• canal
• brooklet
• burn
• gill
• bayou
• bourn
• streamlet
• run
• runnel
• arroyo
• wash
• slough
• runoff
• fresh
• channel
• coulee
• freshet
• runlet
• waterway
• cutoff
• race
• billabong
• watercourse
• branch
• kill
• millstream
• distributary
• affluent
• millrace
• cut
• influent
• confluent
• gut

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of beck

People can be doing their daily activities and have AI continually at their beck and call as a mental health advisor while wearing ordinary earbuds or headphones. — Lance Eliot, Forbes.com, 8 Apr. 2026

As with the removal of the ICEBlock app from Apple’s App Store, Silicon Valley is at the beck and call of Washington, DC. — Sarah Jeong, The Verge, 1 Mar. 2026

Up until that point, Rosamond and Posy were always at her beck and call. — Kennedy French, Variety, 28 Feb. 2026

At his beck and call is The Assassin (Anthony Ramos, flexing his magnetism, particularly in a monologue about the singer Christopher Cross). — Randy Myers, Mercury News, 29 Jan. 2026