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| Main Entry: | creek |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stream of water |
| Synonyms: | brook, burn, crick, ditch, race, rill, river, rivulet, run, spring, tributary, watercourse, brooklet, rindle, runnel, streamlet |
| Notes: | a stream is smaller than a river, a creek is smaller than a stream but larger than a brook; stream, brook, creek, and rivulet are applied interchangeably to any small river |
| Main Entry: | brook |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stream of water |
| Synonyms: | branch, burn, creek, rill, river, rivulet, run, watercourse, beck, rindle, runnel, streamlet |
| Main Entry: | cove |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inlet, small niche |
| Synonyms: | anchorage, arm, bay, bayou, bight, cave, cavern, creek, estuary, gulf, harbor, hole, lagoon, nook, retreat, sound, wash, firth, frith, slough |
| Main Entry: | estuary |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | mouth |
| Synonyms: | arm, creek, fjord, inlet, firth, tidewater, waterway |
| Main Entry: | inlet |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | arm of the sea |
| Synonyms: | basin, bay, bayou, bight, canal, channel, cove, creek, entrance, estuary, fjord, gulf, harbor, ingress, passage, sound, strait, delta, firth, loch, narrows, slew, slough |
| Main Entry: | lake |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inland body of water |
| Synonyms: | basin, creek, lagoon, mere, mouth, pond, pool, reservoir, sluice, spring, inland sea, lakelet, loch, millpond, tarn |
| Main Entry: | river |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waterway |
| Synonyms: | branch, brook, course, creek, estuary, rill, rivulet, run, stream, tributary, watercourse, beck, runnel |
| Main Entry: | stream |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | small river |
| Synonyms: | branch, brook, burn, course, creek, current, drift, flood, flow, race, rill, rivulet, run, rush, spate, surge, tide, torrent, tributary, watercourse, beck, freshet, rindle, runnel, spritz |
| Main Entry: | arm |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | narrow body of water |
| Synonyms: | branch, brook, channel, creek, estuary, fjord, inlet, rivulet, sound, strait, stream, subdivision, tributary, firth |
| Main Entry: | race |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | stream, river |
| Synonyms: | branch, brook, creek, duct, rill, rivulet, run, sluice, tide, gill, raceway, rindle, runnel |
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