Créole

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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

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.
    2. someone of African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant).
    3. someone of mixed African, French, Spanish, and Native American ancestries.
    4. a descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country.
  2. (Louisiana, dated) a native-born of Latin descent in the Louisiana territory of any race or ethnicity, as opposed to Anglo-American settlers

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