Creole

1. A person of European descent born in the West Indies or Spanish America.
2. 1. A person descended from or culturally related to the original French settlers of the southern United States, especially Louisiana.
   2. The French dialect spoken by these people.
3. A person descended from or culturally related to the Spanish and Portuguese settlers of the Gulf States.
4. often creole A person of mixed Black and European ancestry who speaks a creolized language, especially one based on French or Spanish.
5. A Black slave born in the Americas as opposed to one brought from Africa.
6. creole A creolized language.
7. Haitian Creole.

1. Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Creoles.
2. creole Cooked with a spicy sauce containing tomatoes, onions, and peppers: shrimp creole; creole cuisine.

[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.]

Language

Native America

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Creole may refer to:

People

• Creole peoples, a number of distinct ethnic groups in various countries; mix of culture
• Louisiana Creole people
• Creole class, also referred to by the Spanish loanword, Criollo people, an inhabitant of the colonies established by Spain and Portugal
• Belizean Kriol people
• Sierra Leone Creole people
• Krio Dayak people, an ethnic group in West Kalimantan, Indonesia

Languages

Creole language, a stable language that originated from a combination of other languages

• Arabic-based creole languages
• Dutch-based creole languages
• English-based creole languages
• French-based creole languages
• Chinese-based creole languages
• German-based creole languages
• Malay-based creole languages
• Ngbandi-based creole languages
• Portuguese-based creole languages
• Spanish-based creole languages

Some specific creole languages:

• Haitian Creole language, an official language of Haiti
• Louisiana Creole French, a language of Louisiana
• Belizean Kriol language, language spoken in Belize
• Cape Verdean Creole, a language spoken on the islands of Cape Verde
• Krio Dayak language, a language of the Krio Dayak people in West Kalimantan, Indonesia
• Liberian Kreyol language, a language of Liberia
• Mauritian Creole, a French based creole of Mauritius
• Seychellois Creole, a French based creole of the Seychelles
• Guinea-Bissau Creole, a language of Guinea-Bissau
• Negerhollands, a Dutch based creole language once spoken in the U.S. Virgin Islands
• Bislama, an English based creole of Vanuatu
• Llanito, a Spanish and English based language of Gibraltar
• Bajan (Barbadian Creole), an English based language of Barbados
• Antillean Creole (Créole Martiniquais), a French based creole of the Lesser Antilles
• Tok Pisin, an official language of Papua New Guinea.

Other

• Louisiana Creole cuisine, a style of cooking originating in Louisiana (centered on the Greater New Orleans area) that blends French, Mediterranean, Spanish, African, and American influences.
• Creole Love Call, a composition by Duke Ellington
• "Creole" (song), a song by Beyoncé
• The Creole case, an international dispute occasioned by the successful slave revolt 1841 on the Creole, an American ship involved in the coastwise slave trade, and its subsequent hijacking to the Bahamas.
• Creole Records, a record label
• Creole Pig, a breed of pig from Haiti
• Zydeco or Louisiana Creole folk music
• CREOLE, a component model of the General Architecture for Text Engineering text processing system
• Créolité, a Martinican literary movement
• Criolla Grande, also known as "Criolla", an Argentine wine grape
• Creole (markup), a common wiki markup language to be used across different wikis
• Creole earring, a type or style of earring distinguishable by its three quarter moon shape.

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Dansk (Danish)
n. - kreol, kreolsk
adj. - kreolsk

Nederlands (Dutch)
Creool(s), mengtaal

Français (French)
n. - Créole
adj. - (Ling, Culin) créole

Deutsch (German)
n. - Kreole
adj. - kreolisch

Ελληνική (Greek)
n., -
adj. - Κρεολός, -ή, μιγάδας

Italiano (Italian)
creolo

Português (Portuguese)
n. - crioulo (m), mulato (m), mestiço (m)
adj. - crioulo

Русский (Russian)
креол, креольский

Español (Spanish)
n. - criollo, mestizo
adj. - relativo a los criollos o mestizos

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - kreol, kreolspråk, kreolfranska
adj. - kreolsk

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
克里奥尔人, 生于拉丁美洲的欧洲人及其后裔, 克里奥尔人的, 克里奥尔语的

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
n. - 克里奧爾人, 生於拉丁美洲的歐洲人及其後裔
adj. - 克里奧爾人的, 克里奧爾語的

한국어 (Korean)
n. - 크리올 사람, 크리올어
adj. - 크리올 사람의, 크리올어의, 외래종의

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - クレオール, クレオール語, クレオール人
adj. - クレオールの, クレオール語の, クレオール風の

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) أوروبي من جزر الهند الغربيه (صفه) مولد من أبوين أحدهما أوروبي و الآخر ملون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮אדם ממוצא אירופי תושב אמריקה הלטינית, אדם ממוצא צרפתי תושב לואיזיאנה, בן-תערובת לבן-שחור, קראולית (שפה), שפת תערובת (שפה אירופאית עם שפת הילידים)‬
adj. - ‮קשור לשפה קריאולית או לקריאולים, ממוצא קריאולי‬

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