单词 | creolized |
释义 | creolizedadj. 1. That has taken on or been given any of various characteristics of Creole people (see Creole n. 1), their culture, cuisine, etc., esp. by becoming naturalized or hybridized in some way. Also: that has become a Creole; (of a national or ethnic group) that has become composed of Creoles, over the course of successive generations. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > national of a country > [adjective] > creole Creolian1648 Creole1718 creolized1816 1816 G. Pinckard Notes W. Indies (ed. 2) II. liv. 476 The body, from long exposure to the climate, has become creolised [ed. 1 creolisé]. 1829 Death Warrant of Negro Slavery (Soc. Mitigating & Abolishing State of Slavery) p. vi These venerated individuals..at once yielding up, to their Creole or Creolized agents, the keeping..of their consciences. 1834 T. Wentworth West India Sketch Bk. II. 219 Those..have become creolized, or removed from the physical characteristics of the African. 1880 G. W. Cable Grandissimes iii. 20 The most thoroughly Creoleized Américain. 1904 N. V. Goiticoa Venezuela i. 47 A melange of misnamed, creolized, displaced, fragmentary tribes. c1945 J. de Boissière Picong 37 You see children dressed in miniature copies of their mothers' creolized Hollywood gown. 2003 J. B. Harris Beyond Gumbo 9 Creolized New World variants of these African dishes also include all of the rice and legumes dishes of the Caribbean basin. 2. Linguistics. Of a language, a pidgin, etc.: that has developed into a creole (Creole n. 2b). ΚΠ 1871 Trans. Amer. Philol. Soc. 1 125 The English [of Suriname] is already so thoroughly creolized in its grammar. 1926 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 4 115/2 Bibliographical notes on creolized Portuguese, Spanish, and French are given. 1962 Jrnl. Asian Stud. 21 570/1 A lexical comparison to determine the quantity of Agta substratum retained in the creolized jargon should be made. 1969 Caribbean Q. 15 47 If it were decreed that the more Creolised variety should be our national language. 1980 M. R. Miller in J. L. Dillard Perspectives Amer. Eng. v. 427 The Negro, who soon lost his African tribal language and spoke the creolized pidgin of the plantation. 2001 H. Henke West Indian Amer. iv. 97 West Indian novels and poetry were written in standard English and did not reflect the creolized English commonly spoken in the region. 3. Of an introduced crop plant or variety: that has become adapted to local environmental conditions (climate, soil type, etc.). ΚΠ 1998 E. C. H. Meng et al. in M. Smale Farmers, Gene Banks & Crop Breeding ii. 21 Modern varieties that farmers and nature have selected over a period of years are sometimes called ‘rusticated’, ‘creolized’, or, more positively, ‘locally adapted’. 2005 M. R. Bellon et al. Impact Improved Maize Germplasm Poverty Alleviation vi. 49/1 Creolized maize improves farmers' wellbeing mainly by reducing vulnerability. 2011 E. Fitting Struggle for Maize v. 204 Most types of corn grown in the valley are criollos—landraces and creolized varieties—adapted to the local climate and soil conditions. Compounds creolized language n. Linguistics. = Creole n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > [noun] > creole or mixed language patroillart1340 mixed language1592 jargon1643 lingua franca1666 Frank1681 polyglot1715 olla podrida1850 pidgin1869 Creole1871 Mischsprache1930 creolized language1932 Melanesian Pidgin1942 1932 W. L. Graff Lang. & Langs. p. xxxiv Creolized language, a language of a civilized people, especially European, mixed with that of one or more savage tribes. 1933 L. Bloomfield Lang. xxvi. 474 In some cases..a subject group gives up its native language in favour of a jargon... When the jargon has become the only language of the subject group, it is a creolized language. 1949 Archivum Linguisticum 1 ii. 155 It is likewise undeniable in the formation of pidginised languages and of their developments into creolised languages. 1993 Atlantic Oct. 98/2 Creolized languages develop a life of their own, and acquire far more synonyms, allusions, and so on, because of the mixed roots. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1816 |
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