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brook

small stream, i.e. a small natural watercourse
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brook

Summary

brook ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • brook is a type of stream[2].
  • brook is a type of watercourse[3].
  • brook's Commons category is recorded as Brooks[4].
  • brook's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Water streams[5].
  • brook's OpenStreetMap tag is recorded as waterway=stream[6].
  • brook's described by source is recorded as Meyers Konversations-Lexikon, 4th edition (1885–1890)[7].
  • brook's partially coincident with is recorded as stream[8].
  • brook's different from is recorded as Potok[9].
  • brook's less than is recorded as river[10].
  • brook's Digital Atlas of Idaho URL is recorded as https://digitalatlas.cose.isu.edu/hydr/main/images/brook.jpg[11].

Body

Definition and Type

Recorded subclass of include stream[2] and watercourse[3].

Influence

Things named for brook include Beck[12], a family name[13].

Why It Matters

brook ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (75 views/month).[1] brook has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] brook is known by 28 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

Entities named for brook include Beck[12], a family name[13].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [3] ↑ . Integrated Authority File. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] ↑ . wiki.openstreetmap.org. Retrieved . wiki.openstreetmap.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [13] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 7d ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-20 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → stream, watercourse
    Topic's main category → Category:Water streams
    Less than → river
    Different from → Potok
    + 4 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|4 */ [[Property:P2347]]: 12524, mv to monolingual text names on YSO statements"
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