CREEK


Meaning of CREEK in English

[ kri:k ]

■ noun ( plural same)

1》 a member of a confederacy of American Indian peoples of the south-eastern US in the 16th to 19th centuries.

2》 the Muskogean language spoken by the ~.

Origin

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

Concise Oxford English vocab.      Сжатый оксфордский словарь английского языка.