(also creole) noun
1 [C] a person of mixed European and African race, especially one who lives in the West Indies
2 [C] a person whose ancestors were among the first Europeans who settled in the West Indies or Spanish America, or one of the French or Spanish people who settled in the southern states of the US:
Creole cookery
3 [U] a language formed from a mixture of a European language with a local language (especially an African language spoken by SLAVES in the West Indies)
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for Creole is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Does Creole appear elsewhere on Lughet?
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