One entry found for creek.

Entry Word: creek
Function: noun
Text: 1 a natural body of running water smaller than a river <the shallow creek that runs in back of our house>
Synonyms brook, brooklet, rill, rivulet, run [chiefly Midland], streamlet
Related Words freshet, runoff; river, stream, watercourse, waterway; canal, millrace, millstream, race
2 chiefly British
a part of a body of water that extends beyond the general shoreline <explored many of the creeks along the Cornwall coast of England> -- see GULF 1