Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun creek

2 senses of creek

Sense 1
brook, creek -- (a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river); "the creek dried up every summer")
       => stream, watercourse -- (a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth)

Sense 2
Creek -- (any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma)
       => Indian, American Indian, Red Indian -- (a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived)