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Creek

Syllabification: (Creek)

Pronunciation: /krēk/

Definition of Creek

noun (plural same)

1a member of a confederacy of American Indian peoples of the southeastern US in the 16th to 19th centuries whose descendants now live mainly in Oklahoma.

2the Muskogean language of the Creek.

adjective

of, relating to, or denoting the Creek.

Origin:

from creek, because they lived beside the waterways of the flatlands of Georgia and Alabama

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