单词	creole
释义	creolecre‧ole /ˈkriːəʊl $ -oʊl/ noun Word Origin WORD ORIGINcreole Origin: 1700-1800 French créole, from Spanish, from Portuguese crioulo ‘black person born in Brazil, home-born slave’, from criar ‘to breed’, from Latin creare; ➔ CREATE Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES Have you had the shrimp creole? EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Some typical vocabulary words of this creole are listed in table 7. 2. The island community Nichols studied traditionally spoke Gullah, a creole variety developed from the African/English pidgin of early slave plantations. The thatched restaurant offers a splendid selection of international and local creole dishes. word sets WORD SETS► Languages accented, adjectiveAfrikaans, nounAnglo-Saxon, nounArabic, nounBengali, nounbilingual, adjectiveCantonese, nounChinese, nounconversant, adjectivecreole, nounDanish, noundialect, noundictation, noundirect method, noundub, verbDutch, nounEnglish, nounEsperanto, nounFarsi, nounFlemish, nounfluent, adjectiveFrancophone, adjectiveFranglais, nounFrench, adjectiveGaelic, nounGerman, nounGermanic, adjectiveGreek, nounHebraic, adjectiveHebrew, nounHindi, nounIndo-European, adjectiveItalian, nounItalo-, prefixJapanese, nounLatin, nounLatin, adjectivelinguist, nounlinguistics, nounMandarin, nounMaori, nounmodern language, nounmonolingual, adjectivemother tongue, nounmultilingual, adjectivenative speaker, nounoral, nounpatois, nounPersian, nounPolish, adjectivePortuguese, nounRomance language, nounRomany, nounRussian, nounSanskrit, nounsecond language, nounSemitic, adjectivesign, nounsign, verbsign language, nounSinhalese, nounSpanish, nounspeak, verb-speak, suffixspeaker, nounSwedish, nountransliterate, verbTurkish, nounUrdu, nounusage, nounvernacular, nounvocabulary, nounWelsh, noun 1[countable, uncountable] a language that is a combination of a European language with one or more other languages → pidgin2Creole [countable] a)someone whose family were originally from both Europe and Africa b)someone whose family were originally French settlers in the southern US3[uncountable] food prepared in the spicy strong-tasting style of the southern US:  shrimp creole—creole adjective
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