creek
A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river,…A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
» Tom likes playing in the creek.
Meaning
4 senses(UK)A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
Bucht
бу́хточкаbúxtočka, бу́хтаbúxta, зали́вzalív
бу́хтаbúxta, зато́каzatóka
(UK)The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
(Australia, Canada, New Zealand, US)A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
Bach
руче́йručéj
струмо́кstrumók
a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
Any turn or winding.
Examples
79 sentencesTom likes playing in the creek.
Tom and Mary played in the creek.
When I was young, I used to go swimming in a nearby creek.
The creek was frozen.
ruРучей замёрз.
Tom hollered to Mary who was on the other side of the creek.
Translations
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Origin
From Middle English crike, probably from Old Norse kriki, from Proto-Germanic *krikjô, varFrom Middle English crike, probably from Old Norse kriki, from Proto-Germanic *krikjô, variant of krekô, from Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, to wind”); the modern form creek (already late Middle English creke) either reflects open-syllable lengthening of Middle English /i/ or reborrowing from Middle Dutch krēke., Compare typologically English bight, akin to bend, bow.
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