1
: a natural stream of water normally smaller than and often tributary to a river
2
chiefly British
: a small inlet or bay narrower and extending farther inland than a cove
3
archaic
: a narrow or winding passage
1
plural Creek or Creeks
: a member of any of a group of Indigenous American peoples that formed a confederacy in Georgia and eastern Alabama in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries and that were forcibly removed to Indian Territory in 1836 to 1840
2
a
plural Creek or Creeks
: a member of the people who comprised the nucleus of the Creek confederacy : muscogee sense 1
b
: the Muskogean language of this people : muscogee sense 2
Note: Creek is the name by which the Muscogee people were known to English settlers prior to their forcible removal to Indian Territory. Present-day members of this nation live under the name Muscogee (Creek) Nation.
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Noun (1)
The children waded in the creek.
The coast is dotted with tiny creeks.
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Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024
Dive team members for the Houston police department then searched beneath the surface of the muddy creek.
—Ayana Bryant, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2024
Ike Walker, whose business and pleasure in life is the manufacture of fishing lures, was somewhere south of us on the creek fishing with Grady Blanton and Milton Pace.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
Just outside of Conifer, intersecting trails make a loop that, depending on the time of year and conditions, might include a creek crossing near the end.
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Noun
The nurses also provided some basic medical education, making sure that everyone in the area, long accustomed to being able to drink from their local creek, knew that the water was now contaminated because of the flooding.
—Jess Craig, Vox, 17 Nov. 2024
Dive team members for the Houston police department then searched beneath the surface of the muddy creek.
—Ayana Bryant, ABC News, 11 Oct. 2024
Ike Walker, whose business and pleasure in life is the manufacture of fishing lures, was somewhere south of us on the creek fishing with Grady Blanton and Milton Pace.
—Charles Elliott, Outdoor Life, 27 June 2024
Just outside of Conifer, intersecting trails make a loop that, depending on the time of year and conditions, might include a creek crossing near the end.
—Mindy Sink, The Denver Post, 13 June 2024
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“Creek.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/creek. Accessed 26 Nov. 2024.
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