(cree-ole) -- People of mixed French and Spanish blood who are born in South Louisiana Now, can also describe a type of cuisine and a style of architecture
Creole means belonging to or relating to the Creole community. Coconut Rice Balls is a Creole dish. In the 16th-18th centuries, a person born in Spanish America of Spanish parents, as distinguished from one born in Spain but residing in America. Under Spanish colonial rule, Creoles suffered from discrimination; it was consequently Creoles who led the 19th-century revolutions against Spain and became the new ruling class. Today Creole has widely varying meanings. In Louisiana it can mean either French-speaking white descendants of early French and Spanish settlers, or people of mixed descent who speak a form of French and Spanish. In Latin America the term may denote a local-born person of pure Spanish extraction or a member of the urban Europeanized classes as opposed to rural Indians. In the West Indies it refers to all people, regardless of ancestry, who are part of the Caribbean culture. See also Creole language. Any pidgin language that has become established as the native language of a speech community. A creole usually arises when speakers of one language become economically or politically dominant over speakers of another. A simplified or modified form of the dominant group's language (pidgin), used for communication between the two groups, may eventually become the native language of the less powerful community. Examples include Sea Island Creole (formerly Gullah, derived from English), spoken in South Carolina's Sea Islands; Haitian Creole (derived from French); and Papiamento (derived from Spanish and Portuguese), spoken in Curaçao, Aruba, and Bonaire
A style of cooking that features a spicy sauce or dish made especially with tomatoes, peppers, onion, celery, and seasoning Creole cuisine is often served over rice
Originally described those people of mixed French and Spanish blood who migrated from Europe or were born in Southeast Louisiana and lived as city or plantation dwellers The term has expanded now to include a type of cuisine and a style of architecture
a mother tongue that originates from contact between two languages a person descended from French ancestors in southern United States (especially Louisiana) a person of European descent born in the West Indies or Latin America of or relating to or characteristic of native-born persons of French descent in Louisiana; "Creole cooking"
Pertaining to the people, language and customs of Haiti; also used with reference to other cultures both West Indian and Latin American This word comes through the French from a Spanish word meaning "born outside the homeland
term used differently in several contexts In the broadest sense, it refers to the blending of French, Spanish, and sometimes African-Caribbean cultures in colonial Louisiana Can specifically refer to the French-Spanish or French-Spanish-African cultures of New Orleans Black Creole refers to the African-French culture in rural southwest Louisiana The Creole language is a blending of French and African-Caribbean influences and is spoken predominately by black Creoles
A creole is a language that has developed from a mixture of different languages and has become the main language in a particular place. She begins speaking in the Creole of Haiti. French Creole. = patois
Creoles are new languages that have developed from a mixture of old ones and now have a life of their own There are around sixty (60) surviving English-based pidgins and creoles
The word originally described those people of mixed French and Spanish blood who migrated from Europe or were born in Southeast Louisiana and lived as sophisticated city or plantation dwellers The term has expanded and now embraces a type of cuisine and a style of architecture
a language constructed from two or more languages as a result of extended contact between communities (one usually European) A creole is a mother tongue of one community
creoles
Türkische aussprache
kriōlz
Aussprache
/krēˈōlz/ /kriːˈoʊlz/
Etymologie
[ 'krE-"Ol ] (noun.) 1737. French créole, from Spanish criollo, from Portuguese crioulo white person born in the colonies.