| 单词 | Creole |
| 释义 | Creole /kree"ohl/, n. 1. a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry. 2. a person born in Louisiana but of usually French ancestry. 3. (sometimes l.c.) a person of mixed black and European, esp. French or Spanish, ancestry who speaks a creolized form of French or Spanish. 4. (usually l.c.) a creolized language; a pidgin that has become the native language of a speech community. Cf. pidgin. 5. the creolized French language of the descendants of the original settlers of Louisiana. Cf. Cajun. 6. See Haitian Creole. 7. (usually l.c.) Archaic. a black person born in the New World, as distinguished from one brought there from Africa. adj. 8. (sometimes l.c.) of, pertaining to, or characteristic of a Creole or Creoles. 9. (usually l.c.) Cookery. indicating a spicy sauce or dish made esp. with tomatoes, peppers, onions, celery, and seasonings, and often served with rice. 10. (sometimes l.c.) bred or growing in a country, but of foreign origin, as an animal or plant. [1595-1605; < F < Sp criollo < Pg crioulo native, deriv. of criar to bring up < L creare; see CREATE] |
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