CREOLE


Meaning of CREOLE in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ kri:oʊl ]

also Creole

( creoles)

1.

A creole is a language that has developed from a mixture of different languages and has become the main language in a particular place.

She begins speaking in the Creole of Haiti.

...French Creole.

= patois

N-VAR

2.

A Creole is a person of mixed African and European race, who lives in the West Indies and speaks a creole language.

N-COUNT

3.

A Creole is a person descended from the Europeans who first settled in the West Indies or the southern United States of America.

N-COUNT

4.

Creole means belonging to or relating to the Creole community.

Coconut Rice Balls is a Creole dish.

ADJ : usu ADJ n

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