Créole

See also: creole, Creole, and créole

French

Creole in a Red Turban

Depiction of a Creole girl.

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kʁe.ɔl/

• Audio (Paris):

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• Rhymes: -ɔl
• Homophone: créoles

Noun

Créole m or f by sense (plural Créoles)

1. Creole:
   1. Anyone with mixed ancestry born in a country colonized by white Europeans, now especially one who speaks a creole language. [from 18th c.]
   2. someone of African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant). [from 18th c.]
   3. someone of mixed African, French, Spanish, and Native American ancestries.
   4. a descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country. [from 17th 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