Creole (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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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. a person of mixed Black and European, especially French or Spanish, ancestry who speaks a creolized form of French or Spanish.
  4. creole language.
  5. the creolized French language of the descendants of the original settlers of Louisiana.
  6. Haitian Creole.
  7. a Black person born in the Americas, as distinguished from one brought there from Africa.
adjective
  1. relating to or characteristic of a Creole or Creoles.
  2. indicating a spicy sauce or dish, especially one made with tomatoes, peppers, onions, celery, and seasonings, and often served with rice.
  3. bred or growing in a country, but of foreign origin, as an animal or plant.
noun
  1. 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
adjective
  1. denoting, relating to, or characteristic of creole
  2. (of a sauce or dish) containing or cooked with tomatoes, green peppers, onions, etc
noun
  1. (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
  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
adjective
  1. of, relating to, or characteristic of any of these peoples
Creole (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

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