streak

C2+ Topic:General Vocabulary

US /strik/ UK /striːk/ See IPA manual

Meanings

1

noun
a long thin line or band, or an unbroken run of events

The team rode a five-game winning streak into the finals.

Thesaurus

Synonyms

1 noun · a long thin line or band,... stripe line band stroke vein run spell

Word family

Derived forms streakystreakedstreakerstreaking

Related forms strike stroke

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Phrases (1)

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stubborn streak
a persistent tendency to resist changing one's mind or behavior

Adjective + noun

Etymology

From Old English strica ('a line, stroke, mark'), from Proto-Germanic *strikô, related to strican ('to stroke, move'), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- ('to stroke, rub, press').

strica Old English *strikô Proto-Germanic *streyg- Proto-Indo-European

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# streak

**Type:** Word
**Level:** C2+
**Part of speech:** noun
**IPA (US):** /strik/
**IPA (UK):** /striːk/

## Meanings
1. a long thin line or band, or an unbroken run of events

## Examples
- The team rode a five-game winning streak into the finals.

## Synonyms
- stripe
- line
- band
- stroke
- vein
- run
- spell

## Derived Forms
- streaky
- streaked
- streaker
- streaking

## Related Forms
- strike
- stroke

## Roots and Affixes
- Root: strica
- Root: *strikô
- Root: *streyg-

## Etymology
From Old English strica ('a line, stroke, mark'), from Proto-Germanic *strikô, related to strican ('to stroke, move'), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- ('to stroke, rub, press').

## AI Etymology
Streak is from Old English strica ('a line, stroke, mark'), from Proto-Germanic *strikô, related to strican ('to stroke, move'), from Proto-Indo-European *streyg- ('to stroke, rub, press'). Important recorded forms include strica (Old English), *strikô (Proto-Germanic), and *streyg- (Proto-Indo-European). The modern sense continues the older lexical line without requiring a separate origin. In current use it covers a long thin line or band, or an unbroken run of events. The wider family includes derived forms such as streaky, streaked, streaker, and streaking and related words such as strike and stroke.

## Topics
- General Vocabulary

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