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"the creek dried up every summer"nouna natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
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nounany member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahomatype of:
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- river a large natural stream of water (larger than a creek)
- creek any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
- muskogee a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia and eastern Alabama and constituting the core of the Creek Confederacy
- hitchiti a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in Georgia; a member of the Creek Confederacy
- koasati a member of the Muskhogean people formerly living in northern Alabama; a member of the Creek Confederacy
- aegospotami 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
- 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
- swimming hole a small body of water (usually in a creek) that is deep enough to use for swimming
- bull run a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War