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creole

/kree-ohl/US // ˈkri oʊl //UK // (ˈkriːəʊl) //

克里奥尔语,克里奥尔人,克里奥尔,克里奥尔文

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.
    • : a person born in Louisiana but of usually French ancestry.
    • : a person of mixed Black and European, especially French or Spanish, ancestry who speaks a creolized form of French or Spanish.
    • : a creolized language; a pidgin that has become the native language of a speech community.Compare pidgin.
    • : the creolized French language of the descendants of the original settlers of Louisiana.Compare Cajun.
    • : Haitian Creole.
    • : Archaic. a Black person born in the New World, as distinguished from one brought there from Africa.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or characteristic of a Creole or Creoles.
    • : Cooking. indicating a spicy sauce or dish made especially with tomatoes, peppers, onions, celery, and seasonings, and often served with rice.
    • : bred or growing in a country, but of foreign origin, as an animal or plant.

Synonyms & Antonyms

Examples

  • A Haitian community leader named John helps translate from Haitian Creole to Spanish while we sit in the home she’s made for herself in Little Haiti, a tiny village in the remote hills of Tijuana, Mexico.

  • While Remy and I talk, a father and his young son read through a children’s book and an Alice in Wonderland coloring book written in Haitian Creole.

  • She was going through a divorce, and was having a tough time finding work because she spoke solely Creole.

  • It was one of five separate Masses, including in Spanish, English, Haitian-Creole, and Italian.

  • The priest for the Creole ceremony was Father Marcel Saint Jean.

  • There was instead the very best and LaChanze proved how right it is that her name means “the Charmed One” in Creole.

  • The grilled langoustines and seafood gratin are out of this world, as is the locally flavored creole rice.

  • The most authentic Creole cooking is found in private homes.

  • The action was at first a little confusing to Edna, but she soon lent herself readily to the Creole's gentle caress.

  • You know that I come of tough fiber—of that old Creole race of Pontelliers that dry up and finally blow away.

  • On the arrival of the court many of the old Creole families hastened to the capital to greet their sovereigns.

  • The Creole cane takes the hill, and, though less productive, is supposed to yield sugar of a better quality.

  • Many of the Indian women have married the creole Portuguese; intermarriages between creole women and Indian men are more rare.