creek

English Thesaurus

1. a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river) (noun.object)

hypernym	:	stream, watercourse,
definition	:	a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth (noun.object)

hyponym	:	brooklet,
definition	:	a small brook (noun.object)

instance hyponym	:	bull run,
definition	:	a creek in northeastern Virginia where two battles were fought in the American Civil War (noun.location)

instance hyponym	:	aegospotami, aegospotamos,
definition	:	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 (noun.object)

2. any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma (noun.person)

hypernym	:	american indian, indian, red indian,
definition	:	a member of the race of people living in America when Europeans arrived (noun.person)