creek
US: /ˈkɹik/
UK: /kɹˈiːk/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
creek /kri:k/- danh từ
- vùng, lạch
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ) sông con, nhánh sông
- thung lũng hẹp
Advanced English dictionary
+ noun1 (BrE) a narrow area of water where the sea flows into the land
Synonym: INLET
2 (AmE, AustralE) a small river or stream: Sandy Creek
Idioms: up the creek (without a paddle) (spoken) in a difficult or bad situation: I was really up the creek without my car.
Thesaurus dictionary
n.
1 Brit inlet, bay, cove, harbour:
Overnight we moored in a little creek, sheltered from the sea.
2 US and Canadian stream, streamlet, brook, rivulet, rill, runnel, run, burn:
We used to fish in the creek behind the house.
Concise dictionary
creekskriːknoun
+a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)
+any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma
