Plural of creek

Forms of creek

Creeks in a sentence

• Near the coast, tidal creeks and high marshland formed a landscape with irregular parcellings.2003, Dennis Howard Green, Frank Siegmund, The Continental Saxons from the Migration Period to the Tenth Century, page 38. From the entry parcelling
• The creeks gave us lots of food, too—yellow belly and jew, perch and eel.1994, Rita Huggins & Jackie Huggins, Auntie Rita, in Heiss & Minter, Macquarie PEN Anthology of Aboriginal Literature, Allen & Unwin 2008…. From the entry jew
• Today she and husband Murray “bushbash” regularly, going camping in remote gorges and creeks.1990, Asiaweek, volume 16, page 128. From the entry bushbash
• The creeks of Hsin-ho K’ou and Tiao-kuan K’ou communicate with the N. of Lake Tung-t’ing.[1912, Northern China, The Valley of the Blue River, Korea, Hachette & Company, →OCLC, page 400. From the entry Dongting
• Schoolies tend to concentrate inside harbors and along beaches, often moving far inside tidal creeks and salt ponds.2009, Tom Rosenbauer, Nick Lyons, The Orvis Guide to Beginning Fly Fishing: 101 Tips for the Absolute Beginner, page 88. From the entry schoolie

Meaning of creek

1. noun A small inlet, often saltwater, leading to the sea or to the main channel of a river, especially a river estuary.
2. noun The inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.
3. noun A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.

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Questions about the plural of creek

What is the plural of creek?

The plural of creek is creeks.

Is creek countable?

Creek is a countable noun.