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- DictionaryCreole/ˈkriːəʊl/
noun
- 1. a person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean.
- 2. a 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
- 1. relating to a Creole or Creoles: "a restaurant serving both international and Creole cuisine"
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Creole is a word that can refer to a type of language, a person, or a culture. Learn the meaning of creole in English, see examples of creole languages and creole people, and find translations of creole in other languages.
- English (US)
CREOLE meaning: 1. a type of language that developed from a...
- Creole in Simplified Chinese
CREOLE translate: （多种语言混合形成的）混合语, 语言,...
- Creole in Traditional Chinese
CREOLE translate: （多種語言混合形成的）混合語, 語言,...
- Znaczenie Creole, Definicja W Cambridge English Dictionary
creole definicja: 1. a language that has developed from a...
- Crenulate
Examples of how to use “crenulate” in a sentence from...
- Crenellated
CRENELLATED definition: having battlements (= castle walls...
- Creolization
CREOLIZATION definition: 1. the process of developing into a...
- Creosoted
CREOSOTED definition: 1. past simple and past participle of...
- English (US)
: a person of European descent born especially in the West Indies or Spanish America. 2. : a white person descended from early French or Spanish settlers of the U.S. Gulf states and preserving their speech and culture. 3. : a person of mixed French or Spanish and Black descent speaking a dialect of French or Spanish. 4. a.
Creole, originally, any person of European (mostly French or Spanish) or African descent born in the West Indies or parts of French or Spanish America (and thus naturalized in those regions rather than in the parents’ home country).
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Learn the meaning of creole as a language, a person, or a dish, with synonyms, pronunciation, and word origin. See how creole is used in different contexts and regions, such as the Caribbean, Louisiana, and Haiti.
- "Creolization": History of Creole
- Gullah Variety of Creole
- Creole Grammar
- GeneratedCaptionsTabForHeroSec
The historical transition from a pidgin to a creole is called creolization. Decreolizationis the process by which a creole language gradually becomes more like the standard language of a region (or the acrolect). The language that provides a creole with most of its vocabulary is called the lexifier language. For example, the lexifier language of Gu...
- "The English variety spoken by descendants of Africans on the coast of South Carolina is known as Gullah and has been identified as a creole. Of all the vernaculars associated with African Americans, it is the one that diverges the most from (White) middle-class varieties in North America." (S.S. Mufwene, "North American Varieties of English as B...
"[A]s for various arguments that Black English displays African or creole roots because of the role that aspect plays in its grammar (e.g., DeBose and Faraclas 1993), the issue is in fact not yet sufficiently examined to stand as an accepted fact. For one, tense plays a much more central role in Black English grammar than in Creoles or the West Afr...
A creole is a natural language that emerged from a pidgin and has a lexifier language, such as English. Learn about the origin, features, and varieties of creole languages, such as Gullah and Jamaican Creole.
- Richard Nordquist
Creole can refer to a person of mixed European and African ancestry, a language derived from contact between two languages, or a spicy dish with tomatoes and peppers. Learn more about the origin, usage, and examples of creole from Dictionary.com.
Definition of Creole noun in Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary. Meaning, pronunciation, picture, example sentences, grammar, usage notes, synonyms and more.
