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Creek

Pronunciation: /kriːk/

Definition of Creek

noun (plural same)

1a member of a confederacy of American Indian peoples of the south-eastern US in the 16th to 19th centuries; their descendants now live mainly in Oklahoma.

2 [mass noun] the Muskogean language that was spoken by members of the Creek confederacy.

adjective

relating to or denoting the Creek or their language.

Origin:

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

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