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Creole

Pronunciation: /ˈkriːəʊl/
(also creole)
Definition of Creole

noun

  • 1a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.
  • 2a descendant of Spanish or other European settlers in the Caribbean or Central or South America.
  • a white descendant of French settlers in Louisiana and other parts of the southern US.
  • 3a mother tongue formed from the contact of a European language (especially English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese) with local languages (especially African languages spoken by slaves in the West Indies):a Portuguese-based Creole

adjective

  • relating to a Creole or Creoles: a restaurant serving both international and Creole cuisine research on pidgin and Creole languages

Origin:

from French créole, criole, from Spanish criollo, probably from Portuguese crioulo 'black person born in Brazil', from criar 'to breed', from Latin creare 'produce, create'

Creole in other Oxford dictionaries

Definition of Creole in the US English dictionary
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