Creole
oʊl noun
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.
5.
adjective
8.
( sometimes lowercase ) of, pertaining 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.
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Origin:
1595–1605; < French < Spanish criollo < Portuguese crioulo native, derivative of criar to bring up < Latin creāre; see create
1595–1605; < French < Spanish criollo < Portuguese crioulo native, derivative of criar to bring up < Latin creāre; see create
Related forms
half-Cre·ole, adjective
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creole (ˈkriːəʊl) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | Compare pidgin 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 |
| —adj | |
| 2. | denoting, relating to, or characteristic of creole |
| 3. | (of a sauce or dish) containing or cooked with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, etc |
| [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 | |
| Creole (ˈkriːəʊl) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | (sometimes not capital) in the Caribbean and Latin America |
| a. a native-born person of European, esp Spanish, ancestry | |
| b. a native-born person of mixed European and African ancestry who speaks a French or Spanish creole | |
| c. a native-born Black person as distinguished from one brought from Africa | |
| 2. | (in Louisiana and other Gulf States of the US) a native-born person of French ancestry |
| 3. | the creolized French spoken in Louisiana, esp in New Orleans |
| —adj | |
| 4. | of, relating to, or characteristic of any of these peoples |
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Word Origin & History
creole
1604, from Fr. creole, from Sp. criollo "person native to a locality," from Port. crioulo, dim. of cria "person (especially a servant) raised in one's house," from criar "to raise or bring up," from L. creare "to produce, create." The exact sense varies with local use. Originally with no connotation
of color or race; Fowler (1926) writes: "Creole does not imply mixture of race, but denotes a person either of European or (now rarely) of negro descent born and naturalized in certain West Indian and American countries."
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