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creole

8 definitions • 10 examples
1
a type of language that developed from a mixture of different languages, and which is now spoken by a group of people as their first language:

Examples:

Kriol is, as the name suggests, a creole language developed from contact between Europeans and indigenous Australians.
A creole develops a wider range of words, grammatical structures, and styles than is found in a pidgin.
2
used to describe a language that developed from a mixture of different languages, and which is now spoken by a group of people as their first language:

Examples:

Over time, groups of pidgin-speaking children create new creole languages.
3
used as the name of several different creole languages, especially ones that have developed from the mixture of a European language with a language from a different part of the world:

Examples:

She says in Creole that her family is leaving the area.
Speaking Creole felt natural to him.
4
a person who was born in the Caribbean, the southern US, or parts of Central or South America who is related to the first Europeans to live in that part of the world, especially people from France and Spain:

Examples:

He was a first-generation Creole whose father came from a Basque gentry family.
5
a mixed-race person who is part of a culture that was formed when people from different parts of the world came together in the same place, often when one country colonized another (= sent people to live in and govern it), especially someone who speaks a creole language:

Examples:

He was a Creole of European and African descent.
6
relating to or typical of people who were born in the Caribbean, the southern US or parts of Central or South America, and are related to the first Europeans who came to live in that part of the world:

Examples:

I love Creole cooking, so hot and spicy.
The restaurant plays live creole music some evenings.
7

Examples:

Creole is one of the official languages of Haiti.
8
a white person who is related to the original group of Spanish or French people who came to the Caribbean or Louisiana, or a person of color from some Caribbean islands who is of mixed African and European origin and who speaks esp. French Creole

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