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Noun
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(n)
brook
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creek
(a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river))
"the creek dried up every summer"
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(n)
brooklet
(a small brook)
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Bull Run
(a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War)
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Aegospotami
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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)
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(n)
stream
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watercourse
(a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth)
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Creek
(any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma)