noun (n)

• a natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river)(noun.object)

  Example:
  The creek dried up every summer.
  

  Synonym:
  brook
  

  source: wordnet30
• any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma(noun.person)

  source: wordnet30
• A small inlet or bay, narrower and extending further into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river.(noun)

  source: webster1913