Definitions for Creole
Creole
Cre·ole
Spelling: [kree-ohl]
IPA: /ˈkri oʊl/
Creole is a 6 letter English word.
It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points.
It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.
You can make 74 anagrams from letters in Creole (ceelor).
Definitions for Creole
noun
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a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
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a person born in Louisiana but of usually French ancestry.
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(sometimes lowercase) a person of mixed black and European, especially French or Spanish, ancestry who speaks a creolized form of French or Spanish.
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(usually lowercase) a creolized language; a pidgin that has become the native language of a speech community.
Compare pidgin.
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the creolized French language of the descendants of the original settlers of Louisiana.
Compare Cajun.
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Haitian Creole.
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(usually lowercase) Archaic. a black person born in the New World, as distinguished from one brought there from Africa.
adjective
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(sometimes lowercase) of, relating to, or characteristic of a Creole or Creoles.
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(usually lowercase) Cookery. indicating a spicy sauce or dish made especially with tomatoes, peppers, onions, celery, and seasonings, and often served with rice.
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(sometimes lowercase) bred or growing in a country, but of foreign origin, as an animal or plant.
Origin of Creole
1595-1605; French Spanish criollo Portuguese crioulo native, derivative of criar to bring up Latin creāre; see create
Examples for Creole
Mlle. Soubise was then very young, and in appearance like a Creole.
Cassy was dressed after the manner of the Creole Spanish ladies,—wholly in black.
Cajun food developed separately from Creole and has a longer history.
The priest for the Creole ceremony was Father Marcel Saint Jean.
From the author of "Creole and Puritan" and other stories; and is very bright and readable.
Some people label Creole food as “city food” and Cajun as “country food.”
There was instead the very best and LaChanze proved how right it is that her name means “the Charmed One” in Creole.
The Creole, it is true, tried and failed to take the helm of conversation.
Originating in New Orleans, Creole cuisine is the result of influences from the many nationalities who settled in the city.
I was myself the first at liberty, and sprang towards the 'Creole.'