Noun

• S: (n) brook, creek (a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)) "the creek dried up every summer"
• direct hyponym / full hyponym
• has instance
• S: (n) Bull Run (a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War)
• part holonym
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• S: (n) Aegospotami, Aegospotamos (a creek emptying into the Hellespont in present-day Turkey; at its mouth in 405 BC the Spartan fleet under Lysander defeated the Athenians and ended the Peloponnesian War)
• part holonym
• instance
• S: (n) brook, creek (a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)) "the creek dried up every summer"
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term
• S: (n) stream, watercourse (a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth)
• S: (n) branch (a stream or river connected to a larger one)
• S: (n) brook, creek (a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)) "the creek dried up every summer"
• S: (n) headstream (a stream that forms the source of a river)
• S: (n) river (a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)) "the river was navigable for 50 miles"
• S: (n) rivulet, rill, run, runnel, streamlet (a small stream)
• S: (n) tidal river, tidewater river, tidal stream, tidewater stream (a stream in which the effects of the tide extend far upstream)
• S: (n) Creek (any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma)
• direct hypernym / inherited hypernym / sister term