Creole

Word CREOLE
Character 6
Hyphenation N/A
Pronunciations /ˈkɹi.əʊl/

Definitions and meanings of "Creole"

What do we mean by creole?

A descendant of white European settlers who is born in a colonized country.

Anyone with mixed ancestry born in a country colonized by white Europeans, now especially one who speaks a creole language.

Someone of black African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant).

A native-born of Francophone descent in the Louisiana territory of any race, as opposed to Anglo-American and Acadian settlers.

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The word "creole" in example sentences

You might want to read up on the term creole, friend. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The relationship between pidgin and creole is a fantastic analogy of the relationship between social software and the semantic web. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Similarly in the chapter about the way that the Portuguese language unites (or separates) Lusofonia, I’d love to have links to videos from Sri Lanka, where a Portuguese creole is still spoken in a few villages. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Again, I brought up the evolution of Indian English as a positive thing and I have never stated that a creole is a blight on the world…there seem to be a lot of blanks that you are creating and filling in on your own. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Later the so-called mulatos picked up the term crillos aka creole and used the popular term as an identity. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Michif was not a pidgin language, nor was it what linguists call a creole language a pidgin that becomes a native tongue, which also has simplified rules of grammar and syntax. ❋ David Hackett Fischer (2008)

A creole is the combination of one or more languages into a new, stable language. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The role of language contact in giving rise to similarities between languages that cut across family tree boundaries; this includes in particular work on perhaps the most extreme instances of language contact, namely creole and pidgin languages. ❋ Tusar N Mohapatra (2006)

A variety of stories were circulated, some pretended to trace the crime to the Intendant's wife, whilst others alleged that the avenging mother of the creole was the assassin; some again urged that ❋ Unknown (1868)

Madame de Fontanges was a creole, that is, born in the West Indies, of ❋ Frederick Marryat (1820)

The oversized head on the bride with a reaally creepy grin, the "creole" preggers revulsion or the last one. ❋ Jen (2008)

What is most fascinating for me is the "creole" part of it strictly speaking the pidgin part of it. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This number was reached by counting up all the Asian countries individually, even though each of their cuisines are unique, they all qualify as Asian, the same as if we were looking at the cuisines of North America, where there are several regional styles such as creole and cajun, tex mex and as habanero suz rightly pointed out New England. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Russell Banks spoke to this ghettoizing of the imagination as it pertains to ethnicity and nationality in an article for Harper's in which he called for a new kind of creole literature: We're fast becoming a Balkanized cluster of small colonies of the separately saved. ❋ Unknown (2004)

The only U.S. dialect that eludes me is Gullah, spoken on South Carolina’s Sea Islands by descendants of the slaves who worked the old rice plantations; their creole is a clipped combination of 17th Century English and African dialects, spoken rapidly with bedeviling syllabic stresses — listening to it is linguistic adventure, to be sure. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Aspinall says that a child born of white parents in Barbadoes, for example, was a 'creole' of that island and that the word is applied to animals and even to produce, it being not unusual to speak of a 'creole' pig or 'creole' corn (British West Indies, p. 149). ❋ Unknown (1920)

We read also of 'creole' regiments (Calendar of State Papers, Colonial, 1702-1703, pp. 440, 441). ❋ Unknown (1920)

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