creek | | |
n. (object) | 1. brook, creek | a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river).; "the creek dried up every summer" |
| ~ bull run | a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War. |
| ~ aegospotami, aegospotamos | a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War. |
| ~ brooklet | a small brook. |
| ~ stream, watercourse | a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth. |
n. (person) | 2. creek | any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma. |
| ~ american indian, indian, red indian | a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived. |
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