CREOLE


Meaning of CREOLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈkrē-ˌōl ]

noun

Etymology: French créole, from Spanish criollo, from Portuguese crioulo white person born in the colonies

Date: 1737

1. : 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 United States 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. : a language evolved from pidginized French that is spoken by blacks in southern Louisiana

b. : Haitian

c. not capitalized : a language that has evolved from a pidgin but serves as the native language of a speech community

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.