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Soochow Creek

Soochow Creek is the dated form of Suzhou Creek.

Meaning of Suzhou Creek

Proper noun

Suzhou Creek

  1. A river in Shanghai municipality and Jiangsu, China, between Lake Tai and the Huangpu River; despite its name, it is 78 miles long.
    • News of the Nanking rape spread like wildfire and before long refugees were flooding into Shanghai across Suchou Creek and on to the Bund.[2004, Mark L. Isaac-Williams, From Dragon to Dragon, Lewes: The Book Guild, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 25
    Synonyms:
    Suzhou, Wusong, Wusong River

Questions about Soochow Creek

What is Soochow Creek the dated form of?
Soochow Creek is the dated form of Suzhou Creek.

Words near Soochow Creek in the dictionary

  1. soobahs
  2. SOOBs
  3. soochong
  4. soochongs
  5. Soochow
  6. Soochow Creek
  7. Soochownese
  8. Sooder
  9. Sooders
  10. soodle
  11. soodled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Soochow Creek (page history and authors); Suzhou Creek (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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