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

She’s paid to be at Souria’s beck and call every moment of the day and often gets awakened at strange times in the night for errands, like going out to buy every item on a fast-food restaurant’s menu and bring it back for a midnight feast. — Leslie Felperin, HollywoodReporter, 26 May 2026

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