creek

Study(22)

UK /kɹiːk/ US /kɹik/

noun 5name 3adj 1

Collocations

ADJ.

ahead, alike, all, devoted, known, later, nearby, over

We found a small creek ahead of us while hiking through the forest.

VERB + CREEK

edge, fell, included, jump, played, playing, pranced, rides

We played by the creek every summer when we were kids.

CREEK + NOUN

anything, art, cursory, history, paddle, shippers, they're, water

We decided to paddle the creek near our cabin last Saturday afternoon.

PREP.

down, from, in, into, up, without

We waded up the creek to find a good spot for swimming.

ADV.

really

We waded through a really shallow creek on our way back from the hiking trail.

Definitions

noun

A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.

Seven miles to the north of Venice, the banks of sand, which near the city rise little above low-water mark, attain by degrees a higher level, and knit themselves at last into fields of salt morass, raised here and there into shapeless mounds, and intercepted by narrow creeks of sea.

There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.

The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.

A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.

We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,— sound, sky, vegetation,— may have announced it.

Any turn or winding.

noun

One of a Native American tribe from the Southeastern United States, also known as the Muscogee.

name

The Muskogean language of the Creek tribe.

A surname.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

noun — a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a

brook

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Lord willing and the creek don't rise

Barring unforeseen circumstances.

Near-synonym: hopefully (sentence adverbial sense)

up the creek

In trouble; in a difficult situation.

We'll be up the creek if we lose those files, so we should back them up regularly.

up shit creek without a paddle

Alternative form of up shit creek.

up shit's creek

Alternative form of up shit creek.

up shit's creek without a paddle

Alternative form of up shit creek.

Example Bank

Wiktionary

There is a tide in the affairs of men, / Which, taken any way you please, is bad, / And strands them in forsaken guts and creeks / No decent soul would think of visiting.

Wiktionary

We all feel it Looming, even when we're awake, out there ahead someplace, the way you come to feel a River or Creek ahead, before anything else,— sound, sky, vegetation,— may have announced it.

Wiktionary

The chieftain was well versed in Creek history.

Wiktionary

For at least a decade, people on the internet have been drawing fan art of the love between this two characters (a ship known as "Creek"). A cursory search of DeviantArt shows Creek art dating back to

Wiktionary

The episode’s humor and heart speak to viewers bemused at the concept of yaoi and devoted “Creek” shippers alike, but it isn’t the child characters learning something by the show’s conclusion. Instead

Wiktionary

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, creek is marked as slang, British, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

Your note

not saved

0 chars