Cove vs. Creek — What's the Difference?

A cove is a small type of bay or coastal inlet. Coves usually have narrow, restricted entrances, are often circular or oval, and are often situated within a larger bay.

A member of a Native American people formerly inhabiting eastern Alabama, southwest Georgia, and northwest Florida and now located in central Oklahoma and southern Alabama. The Creek were removed to Indian Territory in the 1830s.

A small sheltered bay in the shoreline of a sea, river, or lake.

The Muskogean language of the Creek.

A recess or small valley in the side of a mountain.

A Native American confederacy made up of the Creek and various smaller southeast tribes.

A cave or cavern.

A member of this confederacy. In all senses also called Muskogee1.

A narrow gap or pass between hills or woods.

A small stream, often a shallow or intermittent tributary to a river. Also called regionally branch, brook1, kill2, run.

A concave molding.

A channel or stream running through a salt marsh

A concave surface forming a junction between a ceiling and a wall. Also called coving.

Chiefly British A small inlet in a shoreline, extending farther inland than a cove.

A fellow; a man.

(British) A small inlet or bay, often saltwater, narrower and extending farther into the land than a cove; a recess in the shore of the sea, or of a river; the inner part of a port that is used as a dock for small boats.

To make in an inward curving form.

A stream of water (often freshwater) smaller than a river and larger than a brook; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.

A hollow in a rock; a cave or cavern.

Any turn or winding.

(architecture) A concave vault or archway, especially the arch of a ceiling.

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.

A small coastal inlet, especially one having high cliffs protecting vessels from prevailing winds.

A stream of water smaller than a river and larger than a brook.

(US) A strip of prairie extending into woodland.

Any turn or winding.

A recess or sheltered area on the slopes of a mountain.

A natural stream of water smaller than a river (and often a tributary of a river);

(nautical) The wooden roof of the stern gallery of an old sailing warship.

Any member of the Creek Confederacy (especially the Muskogee) formerly living in Georgia and Alabama but now chiefly in Oklahoma

(nautical) A thin line, sometimes gilded, along a yacht's strake below deck level.

A fellow; a man.

A friend; a mate.

(architecture) To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.

To brood, cover, or sit over, as birds their eggs.

A retired nook; especially, a small, sheltered inlet, creek, or bay; a recess in the shore.

A strip of prairie extending into woodland; also, a recess in the side of a mountain.

A concave molding.

A boy or man of any age or station.

To arch over; to build in a hollow concave form; to make in the form of a cove.

To brood, cover, over, or sit over, as birds their eggs.

A small inlet

Small or narrow cave in the side of a cliff or mountain