Creole

['kri:əul]

Definition

(noun.) a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages.

(noun.) a person descended from French ancestors in southern United States (especially Louisiana).

(noun.) a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Latin America.

(adj.) of or relating to or characteristic of native-born persons of French descent in Louisiana; 'Creole cooking' .

(adj.) of or relating to a language that arises from contact between two other languages and has features of both; 'Creole grammars' .

Editor: Sharon--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) One born of European parents in the American colonies of France or Spain or in the States which were once such colonies, esp. a person of French or Spanish descent, who is a native inhabitant of Louisiana, or one of the States adjoining, bordering on the Gulf of of Mexico.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a Creole or the Creoles.

Edited by Linda

Definition

n. and adj. strictly applied in the former Spanish French and Portuguese colonies of America Africa and the East Indies to natives of pure European blood (sangre azul) in opposition to immigrants themselves born in Europe or to the offspring of mixed blood as mulattoes quadroons Eurasians &c.: (U.S.) applied only to the native French stock in Louisiana: a negro born in the West Indies—earlier Creō′lian.

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