STREAM

STREAM 1 syllable

B1 · Intermediate 📏 6 letters 🎲 Scrabble 8 ✅ valid word

Useful in everyday and work contexts.

noun
  1. a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth
  2. dominant course (suggestive of running water) of successive events or ideas
  3. the act of flowing or streaming
  4. something that resembles a flowing stream in moving continuously

💬 Examples

  • "two streams of development run through American history"
  • "stream of consciousness"
  • "continuous progression"
  • "a stream of people emptied from the terminal"

🔗 Similar words

verb
  1. to extend, wave or float outward, as if in the wind
  2. exude profusely
  3. move in large numbers
  4. rain heavily

💬 Examples

  • "their manes streamed like stiff black pennants in the wind"
  • "She was streaming with sweat"
  • "His nose streamed blood"
  • "people were pouring out of the theater"
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