Creole

Quick meaning: Creole is a noun meaning (linguistics) A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.

Meaning

(linguistics) A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.

More Meanings

1. (jewelry) A style of hoop earrings with a hoop that has an inconsistent thickness and/or is elongated in shape.
2. (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Creole (“person born in a colony”).

Example Sentences

From the point of view of syntactic analysis, I have shown how transformational theory may be applied to the syntax of a Creole language.

Some of the great merchants in the Indies were creoles, but the majority were peninsulares. These latter acted as effective intermediaries between Spain and the colonies.

To communicate, they evolve a creole called Belter, which becomes the lingua franca for what is essentially the solar system’s new proletariat. […] There is a simple, regular grammar that is typical of creoles.

There are three orders of people: those who were alive when the French possessed the island: they understand the good French; those who were born in the heat of the Revolution, and who have arrived at maturity without instruction, these speak only Creole[…]

Word Forms

• creoles

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include basilectal, lexicon, brig, pidgin, patois, vernacular.

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