Synonyms of streamlet

streamlet

noun

ˈstrēm-lət 

as in brook

a natural body of running water smaller than a river

the raging brook of last spring is a mere streamlet now that it's July

Synonyms & Similar Words

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

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of streamlet

It is built across what once was a narrow streamlet with water so clean that the community used it to wash their clothes and bathe children. — Hasan Ali, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Feb. 2023

The water vapor signal in that band, though, is small, like a streamlet. — Alejandra Borunda, National Geographic, 26 Nov. 2019