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Definitions for Creole

[1] a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
[2] a person born in Louisiana but of usually French ancestry.
[3] (sometimes lowercase ) a person of mixed black and European, especially French or Spanish, ancestry who speaks a creolized form of French or Spanish.
[4] (usually lowercase ) a creolized language; a pidgin that has become the native language of a speech community. Compare pidgin.
[5] the creolized French language of the descendants of the original settlers of Louisiana. Compare Cajun.
[6] Haitian Creole.
[7] (usually lowercase ) Archaic . a black person born in the New World, as distinguished from one brought there from Africa.
[8] (sometimes lowercase ) of, relating to, or characteristic of a Creole or Creoles.
[9] (usually lowercase ) Cookery . indicating a spicy sauce or dish made especially with tomatoes, peppers, onions, celery, and seasonings, and often served with rice.
[10] (sometimes lowercase ) bred or growing in a country, but of foreign origin, as an animal or plant.
[11] a language that has its origin in extended contact between two language communities, one of which is generally European. It incorporates features from each and constitutes the mother tongue of a community Compare pidgin
[12] denoting, relating to, or characteristic of creole
[13] (of a sauce or dish) containing or cooked with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, etc
[14] (sometimes not capital) (in the Caribbean and Latin America) a native-born person of European, esp Spanish, ancestry a native-born person of mixed European and African ancestry who speaks a French or Spanish creole a native-born Black person as distinguished from one brought from Africa
[15] (in Louisiana and other Gulf States of the US) a native-born person of French ancestry
[16] the creolized French spoken in Louisiana, esp in New Orleans
[17] of, relating to, or characteristic of any of these peoples

Words related to Creole

jargon, pidgin

Origin of Creole

1595–1605; < French < Spanish criollo < Portuguese crioulo native, derivative of criar to bring up < Latin creāre; see create

Other words from Creole

half-Cre·ole , adjective

Word origin for Creole

C17: via French and Spanish probably from Portuguese crioulo slave born in one's household, person of European ancestry born in the colonies, probably from criar to bring up, from Latin creāre to create

Synonyms for Creole

business language, diplomatic language, jargon, language universal, lingua franca, linguistic universal, pidgin