creeks
- 1Plural of creek.
Several creeks feed the lake, and most of them dry up by late August.
On the English coast, fishing boats shelter in the muddy tidal creeks off the estuary.
Note
A plural that changes landscape with the speaker. British creeks are small inlets, often salty, running off the sea or an estuary, or the inner docks of a port where small boats tie up; American, Canadian and New Zealand creeks are freshwater streams smaller than a river, and Australian ones can be river-sized. With a capital, Creeks are members of the Muscogee people of the Southeastern United States.
creeks is a form of creek
creek, noun: A stream, typically of fresh water and smaller than a river; in Australia, also a body of water the size of a river. Full entry
- Forms
- creekcreeks plural
- Spelling
- creek → creeks: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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