Créole

See also: creole, Creole, and créole

French

Depiction of a Creole girl.

Etymology

An adaptation of the Castilian (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Spanish criollo (“homey, local yokel”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria (“person raised in one’s house, servant”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Portuguese criar (“to rear, to bring up”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin creo (“to create”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁe.ɔl/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Homophone: créoles

Noun

Créole m or f (plural Créoles)

1. Creole:
   1. A descendant of white European settlers who is born in a colonized country. [from 17th c.]
   2. Anyone with mixed ancestry born in a country colonized by white Europeans, now especially one who speaks a creole language. [from 18th c.]
   3. Someone of black African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant). [from 18th c.]
2. (Louisiana, dated) A native-born of Latin descent in the Louisiana territory of any race or ethnicity, as opposed to Anglo-American settlers.

Anagrams

• colère
• coléré
• crôlée
• éclore
• récole, récolé