becknoun [ C ]
uk/bek/us/bek/UKNorthern English a small river
Synonym
stream
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Watercourses & waterfalls
- arroyo
- barrage
- bayou
- brook
- burn
- cascade
- creek
- downriver
- Euphrates
- ghat
- gully
- headwater
- Mississippi
- rapids
- rivulet
- sluice
- spate
- upriver
- watercourse
- watershed
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Examples from literature
- Here we found the beck running deeply and swiftly along a channel which appeared to have been hewn out expressly for it, but on closer inspection we found it quite a natural formation.
Idiom(s)
at sb's beck and call