brooks
SayBRUUKS/bɹʊks/
- 1Plural of brook. Use this word for more than one small stream.
Two small brooks run through the woods behind our school.
In spring, the brooks are full of water from the melting snow.
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- 2Present tense of brook used after he, she, or it. Usually seen in phrases like "brooks no delay."
My grandmother brooks no bad manners at the dinner table.
Our teacher rarely brooks talking during a test.
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- 3A last name from England, first used for people living near a stream.
- 4A first name for a boy.
- 5An Alberta city in western Canada.
- 6A place in Kentucky near Louisville.
- 7One area within San Antonio in Texas.
- 8An area with its own local government in Michigan.
- 9A New England community in Maine.
- 10Small Georgia town south of Atlanta.
- 11A small place in Oregon near Salem.
- 12A small Northern Californian community.
- 13A very small city in Minnesota.
- 14A small place in Montana.
- 15A small country settlement in Alabama.
- 16A small settlement in Arkansas.
- 17A small settlement in Iowa.
- 18A small settlement in Wisconsin that used to have the name Brookings.
- 19A tiny village in Cornwall, England.
- 20A small place in Powys, Wales.
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brooks is a form of brook
brook, noun: A small stream of moving water, smaller than a river. Full entry
- Forms
- brookbrooks plural
- Spelling
- brook → brooks: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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