['kri:??l]
¦ noun
1. a person of mixed European and black descent.
2. a descendant of European settlers in the Caribbean or Central or South America.
a white descendant of French settlers in Louisiana.
3. a mother tongue formed from the contact of a European language with a local language (especially African languages spoken by slaves in the West Indies).
¦ adjective relating to a Creole or Creoles.
Origin
from Fr. creole, criole, from Sp. criollo, prob. from Port. crioulo 'black person born in Brazil'.