stream

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A small, narrow river.

   The children played in the clear mountain stream.

2. 2
   noun

   A steady flow of liquid, people, or things moving in one direction.

   A stream of people poured out of the station at rush hour.

3. 3
   verb

   To flow steadily and in large amounts.

   Tears streamed down her face as she read the letter.

Common collocations

• stream a movie Verb + noun

From Middle English streem, strem, from Old English strēam, from Proto-West Germanic *straum, from Proto-Germanic *straumaz (“stream”), from Proto-Indo-European *srowmos (“river”), from Proto-Indo-European *srew- (“to flow”). Doublet of rheum. Cognate with Scots strem, streme, streym (“stream, river”), North Frisian Stroom, struum (“stream”), West Frisian stream (“stream”), Low German Stroom (“stream”), Dutch stroom (“current, flow, stream”), German Strom (“current, stream”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål strøm (“current, stream, flow”), Norwegian Nynorsk straum (“current, stream, flow”), Swedis…

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