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Bach — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • bach noun A bachelor.
  • beck noun A small stream or brook, especially in Northern England.
  • brook noun A small, natural stream of water.
  • burn noun An injury to skin or tissue caused by heat, fire, chemicals, or radiation.
  • creek noun A small stream, narrower than a river.
  • run verb To move quickly on foot, faster than walking.
  • stream noun A small natural flow of water, smaller than a river.

Senses

Bach is used for these senses in English:

  • Bach (music) Johann Sebastian Bach, a German organist and composer.
  • beck (Norfolk, Northern England) A stream or small river.
  • brook A body of running water smaller than a river; a small stream.
  • burn (Northern England, Scotland) A large stream.
  • creek (Australia, New Zealand, Canada, US) A stream of water, typically a stream of freshwater smaller than a river; in Australia, also used of river-sized bodies of water.
  • run (chiefly, eastern, _, North Midland US, especially, Ohio, Pennsylvania) A small creek or part thereof. (Compare Southern US branch and New York and New England brook.)
  • stream A small river; a large creek; a body of moving water confined by banks.

bach — full definition

  1. noun A bachelor.
  2. noun In New Zealand and Australian English, a small, simple holiday house, often near the beach.
  3. verb To live alone as an unmarried man, handling one's own cooking and housekeeping.

beck — full definition

  1. noun A small stream or brook, especially in Northern England.
  2. noun A gesture, such as a nod or wave, used to summon or signal someone (mainly in the phrase "at someone's beck and call").

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