c. 1600, from French créole (17c.), from Spanish criollo "person native to a locality," from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria "person (especially a servant) raised in one's h [..]

people and culture of the Native American, French, Caribbean, African, and Spanish settlers of the American Gulf Coast, especially the state of Louisiana.

A native language combining the traits of multiple languages, i.e., an advanced and fully developed pidgin. In the American South, black slaves were often brought in from a variety of African tribes s [..]

noun. A language which has progressed from extended contact between at least two languages and has come to be the origin language of a talking society.

A descendant of the original Spanish, Portuguese, or French settlers of the Americas.

In linguistic study, a "creole" is a language that has developed due to a merging of two or more other languages and has evolved over time into its own native dialect or language. Creoles ar [..]

Designating a type of New Orleans cookery; dishes a la Creole are often cooked with tomatoes and okra.

Cuisine originating in 18th-century New Orleans, in which classical European cooking was combined with New World herbs and spices and African and Native American culinary traditions. The emphasis on d [..]

A stable and full-fledged language that originates from the combination of two or more languages. There are many examples of creole languages. Haitian Creole and Belizean Creole are two examples.

A fully formed language that develops from a pidgin language and gradually becomes the primary language of a linguistic community. As the domains of the use of a pidgin language expand, it develops in [..]

A person born in a European colony of either European or African parentage. The term was used to distinguish those born in the colonies from both aboriginal peoples and those who came directly from Europe or Africa. The word was also used to refer to languages developed in the New World out of a mixture of European and African roots.

A pidgin language that has become elaborated into a multi-functional language and distributed into a first language of the community.

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Designating a type of New Orleans cookery; dishes a la Creole are often cooked with tomatoes and okra.

More refined than Cajun, creole cookery relies more on butter and cream, it also relies more on the use of tomatoes and is not as spicy as its Cajun counterpart.

(n) a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Latin America(n) a person descended from French ancestors in southern United States (especially Louisiana)(n) a mother tongue that originate [..]

See Pidgin.

Can refer to a people or a style of cooking, music or architecture.

Creole refers to the cooking of the French-speaking West Indies, as well as to southern Louisiana and the Gulf states. Criolla refers to the cuisine of Spanish-speaking islands. Both terms encompass a [..]

A term used to describe a pidgin after it has become the mother tongue of a certain population. This development usually implies that the pidgin has become more complex grammatically and has increased [..]

In Louisiana, Creole refers to people of mixed heritage, mostly from ancestries rooted in West Africa, Spain, France, the Indigenous American, and Caribbean countries such as Cuba, Haiti and the Domin [..]

Descendents of French, Spanish, and Carribean slaves and natives; has also come to mean any person whose ancestry derives from the Caribbean's mixed nationalities.

a language that originates from two other languages and has features of both. See also: acrolect.

sauce made with onions, tomatoes, pepper and seasoning, common to southern 

Initially meant locally born and was used to refer to the white colonial elite and locally born slaves. Today the term is used to describe the dialects and syncretic languages of the Caribbean and the [..]

(linguistics) A lect formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.

A descendant of white European settlers who is born in a colonized country. from 17th c. * '''1969''', Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, ''The Political Systems of Empires'' (page 76) *: Within the Spanish [..]

A creole is a language that has been formed by mixing other languages. It is used as a first language.A pidgin is similar to a creole, but it is not used as a first language, only as a simplified &quo [..]

(Redirected from Pidgin) A creole is a language that has been formed by mixing other languages. It is used as a first language.A pidgin is similar to a creole, but it is not used as a first language, [..]