[ 'kri:əʊl ]
■ noun
1》 a person of mixed European and black descent.
2》 a descendant of European settlers in the Caribbean or Central or South America.
↘a white descendant of French settlers in Louisiana.
3》 a mother tongue formed from the contact of a European language with a local language (especially African languages spoken by slaves in the West Indies).
■ adjective relating to a ~ or ~s.
Origin
from Fr. créole , criole , from Sp. criollo , prob. from Port. crioulo 'black person born in Brazil'.