[kree-ohl] 
| 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, esp. 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, pertaining to, or characteristic of a Creole or Creoles. |
| 9. | (usually lowercase) Cookery. indicating a spicy sauce or dish made esp. 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. |
| Cre·ole (krē'ōl') n.
[French créole, from Spanish criollo, person native to a locality, from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria, person raised in the house, especially a servant, from criar, to bring up, from Latin creāre, to beget; see ker-2 in Indo-European roots.] |
