STREAMLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does streamlet mean? 

• STREAMLET (noun)
  The noun STREAMLET has 1 sense:

1. a small stream

  Familiarity information: STREAMLET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• STREAMLET (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A small stream

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)

Synonyms:

rill; rivulet; run; runnel; streamlet

Hypernyms ("streamlet" is a kind of...):

stream; watercourse (a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth)

Derivation:

stream (a natural body of running water flowing on or under the earth)

 Context examples 

Most of the soil had been washed away or buried in drift after the removal of the trees; only where the streamlet ran down from the kettle a thick bed of moss and some ferns and little creeping bushes were still green among the sand.

(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

They sledded seventy miles up the Yukon, swung to the left into the Stewart River, passed the Mayo and the McQuestion, and held on until the Stewart itself became a streamlet, threading the upstanding peaks which marked the backbone of the continent.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)