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Creole

noun
🔊/ˈkriːəʊl/
🔊/ˈkriːəʊl/
(also creole)
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  1. [countable] a person of mixed European and African race, especially one who lives in the West Indies克里奥尔人（尤指居住在西印度群岛的欧洲人和非洲人的混血儿）
  2. [countable] a person whose ancestors were among the first Europeans who settled in the West Indies or South America, or one of the French or Spanish people who settled in the southern states of the US克里奥尔人（指首批定居在西印度群岛或南美的欧洲人的后裔，或定居在美国南部诸州的法国人和西班牙人的后裔）
    • Creole cookery克里奥尔式烹饪方法
  3. [uncountable, countable] a language formed when a mixture of a European language with a local language (especially an African language spoken by slaves in the West Indies) is spoken as a first language克里奥尔语（欧洲语言和当地语言的混合语，尤指与西印度群岛奴隶讲的非洲语言的混合语）
    • Most of the population speak a creole with a French-derived vocabulary.大多数人口讲带有法语的词汇的克里奥尔语。
    • The two girls were speaking Creole.两个女孩在说克里奥尔语。
    compare pidginTopics Languagec2
    4. Word Originfrom French créole, criole, from Spanish criollo, probably from Portuguese crioulo ‘black person born in Brazil’, from criar ‘to breed’, from Latin creare ‘produce, create’.