Meaning

2 senses

  1. A slow-moving, often stagnant creek or river.

  2. A swamp; a marshy (stagnant) body of water.

More definitions
  • a swampy arm or slow-moving outlet of a lake (term used mainly in Mississippi and Louisiana)

Examples

7 sentences

  1. Welcome to the bayou.

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  2. A corpse was found at the bayou just yesterday.

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  3. Yanni got rid of the gun in the bayou.

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  4. Sami is from the bayou.

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  5. "What's the Bayou State?" "It's Louisiana."

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Translations

5 languages

Origin

From Louisiana French bayou, from Choctaw bayuk (“a creek”). Doublet of bogue.

From Louisiana French bayou, from Choctaw bayuk (“a creek”). Doublet of bogue.

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Forms

plural: bayous
Singularbayou
Pluralbayous

regular

Word family

3 related words
Derivedbayou beansbayoulikebayou physa

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
bayA2bayonetbazaarbeA1beachA1
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