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Date: 1700-1800
Language: French
Origin: créole, from Spanish, from Portuguese crioulo 'black person born in Brazil, home-born slave', from criar 'to breed', from Latin creare; CREATE

creole

 noun
     
Related topics: Languages
cre‧ole
1 [uncountable and countable]SLL a language that is a combination of a European language with one or more other languages [↪ pidgin]
2

Creole

[countable]
a) someone whose family was originally from both Europe and Africa
b) someone whose family were originally French settlers in the southern US
3 [uncountable] food prepared in the spicy strong-tasting style of the southern US:
shrimp creole
—creole adjective
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