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Definition of Creole in English: Creole(also creole) noun ˈkriːəʊlˈkriˌoʊl 1A person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean. 克里奥尔人(尤指居住在加勒比海的欧洲人和黑人的混血儿后裔) Example sentencesExamples - Just to hear St. Lucians relax in their Creole is a real treat for first time visitors.
- The Creoles, the black people of the Caribbean region, are the descendants of colonial-era slaves, Jamaican merchants, and West Indian laborers.
- Like many Caribbean Creoles, Papiamento is odd and surprising.
- Free Creoles were of mixed African and European descent.
- It is the native tongue of the Creoles, blacks who came from Jamaica and other islands colonized by the British.
- Black Creoles and Garifunas, the descendants of Caribbean slaves, mix with Miskito, Rama, and Sumu Indians, who have lived on the land for hundreds of years.
- 1.1 A descendant of Spanish or other European settlers in the Caribbean or Central or South America.
克里奥尔人(加勒比海或中美洲或南美洲的西班牙或其他欧洲移民的后裔) Example sentencesExamples - Despite this racial discourse, rural Belizean Creoles developed alternative systems of natural resource use based in part upon small-scale agricultural production.
- Some urban-and often lighter skinned-Belizean Creoles were large landowners and merchants in the early to mid-nineteenth century, having inherited property from their wealthy white fathers.
- The urban elite is primarily Creole, mostly of Spanish descent.
- At the same time, certain ideas about relationships to the natural environment were a part of the racial formation of Belizean Creoles.
- The Republic of Panama is a former Spanish colony in Central America with a mixed population of Creoles, mestizos, European immigrants, Africans, and indigenous Indians.
- 1.2 A white descendant of French settlers in Louisiana and other parts of the southern US.
克里奥尔人(路易斯安那州和美国南部其他地区的法国移民的白人后裔) Example sentencesExamples - French Creoles dominated Louisiana, even after Spain officially took over the colony in the mid-eighteenth century and some Spanish settled there.
- She married Oscar Chopin, a Creole, and went to live in New Orleans, Louisiana, spending her summers at Grand Isle, a fashionable resort off the south coast.
- In Louisiana the Creoles and Acadians rejected the cotton planters' Southern nationalism.
- His father had prospered in Louisiana and married a young Creole before returning to his native region.
- Those early settlers of French descent came to be known as Creoles and still make up a central part of the state's community.
2A mother tongue formed from the contact of a European language (especially English, French, Spanish, or Portuguese) with local languages (especially African languages spoken by slaves in the West Indies) 克里奥尔语,混合语(尤指英语、法语、西班牙语或葡萄牙语等某种欧洲语言通过与西印度群岛奴隶所讲的非洲语言等当地语言的联系并经过混杂语阶段而最终形成的一种母语) a Portuguese-based Creole 葡萄牙语克里奥尔语。 Example sentencesExamples - The vernacular is a Creole, which is essentially fifteenth-century Portuguese with a simplified vocabulary and influences from Mandingo and several Senegambian languages.
- The original language community of the Creoles was composed of French and Louisiana Creole.
- English is the official language, but English Creole is the language most people speak.
- While English is the official language, French, Creole, Bhojpuri and Urdu are widely spoken.
- While the spoken language is Creole, the schools teach in English, and French remains the language of prestige.
- Some Creole is spoken near the Haitian border and in the sugarcane villages, where many Haitian workers live.
- They are afraid that those who speak Creole will learn French, and no longer feel inferior.
- We are trying to develop a Jamaican sign language system for English and Jamaican Creole.
- The different groups speak their own languages, but the language spoken across ethnic lines is a form of pidgin English called Creole.
- Although French is the official language, Creole is the language of everyday life.
- Most people on the islands speak a local dialect, or Creole, that combines elements of West African languages and French.
- But St Lucia has many areas with French names, and the locals speak both English and Creole.
- The term Creole derives from the Portuguese word ‘crioulo’ meaning an individual of European ancestry who was born and reared abroad.
- Others learned the ways of local Indians, as Creoles before them had done, and as the Cajuns themselves had done earlier in Acadia / Nova Scotia.
- But you know, they had the ballots available in like three different languages: Spanish and Creole in addition to English.
- An English Creole arose on Saint Croix and is still spoken, although its use is generally limited to older islanders.
- As he refined his draft, snippets re-entered his memory in dialects of French, Spanish, Creole and English.
- The lack of local Creole literature has prompted many Martinicans to deny that Creole constitutes a language.
- Seychellois have three official languages: Creole, English, and French.
- They insisted we speak Creole at home, join the local Haitian church and become active in our community to stay close to our Haitian roots.
Synonyms language, dialect, patois, vernacular, mother tongue, native tongue, jargon, argot, cant, pidgin, creole, lingua franca
adjective ˈkriːəʊlˈkriˌoʊl Relating to a Creole or Creoles. (与)克里奥尔人(有关)的;(与)克里奥尔语(有关)的 a restaurant serving both international and Creole cuisine research on pidgin and Creole languages Example sentencesExamples - Turning around, I discover two beautiful Creole women, drinking beer and laughing like crazy.
- Cemeteries held an important place in Creole life.
- These discourses invalidate indigenous and Creole land claims in the popular imagination and inform the cultural politics of identity among coastal peoples.
- The young men getting into trouble do not have Creole names.
- My parents were among the cream of Creole society.
- Another first is the Bayou Cafe, a New Orleans-inspired Cajun and Creole eatery that features live jazz music accompaniment.
- Inspired by Derek Walcott's epic poem ‘Omeros,’ it explores Creole identity.
- They grew up together on and around Roman Street in the 7th Ward, the most intensely Creole part of town.
- Women are the emotional and economic center of the household in many Creole groups but are subordinated in traditional, patriarchal Hindostani circles.
- Riddles play an important part in Creole folklore.
- Along with simple shot gun houses and Creole cottages, century-old landmarks were hit hard.
- The mambo derives its power from Creole voodoo.
- The capital of the island is Roseau, a town of bright painted shutters and Creole cafés, where the dreadlocks swing and fine large ladies laugh like avalanches
- This energetic and erotic Creole dance has origins in the sugar fields, in the days when African labour was captive.
- In this Creole kind of interactive transaction, not only do you get what you want, but you also meet half the island in the process.
- But the exclusion of Creole cuisine from the top league table wouldn't meet with local approval.
- Low country cooking is very similar to Cajun or Creole cuisine.
- But the role of the emergent rural and non-elite Creole population in transforming Belize's landscape throughout the nineteenth century is less clear.
- Although the archetypal Belizean Creole of colonial commentary was male, women also were contributing to the development of rural Belizean Creole places.
- We have our own architecture with the famous shotgun houses and Creole cottages and the mansions in the Garden District.
OriginFrom French créole, criole, from Spanish criollo, probably from Portuguese crioulo 'black person born in Brazil', from criar 'to breed', from Latin creare 'produce, create'. Definition of Creole in US English: Creole(also creole) nounˈkriˌoʊlˈkrēˌōl 1A person of mixed European and black descent, especially in the Caribbean. 克里奥尔人(尤指居住在加勒比海的欧洲人和黑人的混血儿后裔) Example sentencesExamples - Like many Caribbean Creoles, Papiamento is odd and surprising.
- It is the native tongue of the Creoles, blacks who came from Jamaica and other islands colonized by the British.
- Free Creoles were of mixed African and European descent.
- The Creoles, the black people of the Caribbean region, are the descendants of colonial-era slaves, Jamaican merchants, and West Indian laborers.
- Just to hear St. Lucians relax in their Creole is a real treat for first time visitors.
- Black Creoles and Garifunas, the descendants of Caribbean slaves, mix with Miskito, Rama, and Sumu Indians, who have lived on the land for hundreds of years.
- 1.1 A descendant of Spanish or other European settlers in the Caribbean or Central or South America.
克里奥尔人(加勒比海或中美洲或南美洲的西班牙或其他欧洲移民的后裔) Example sentencesExamples - The Republic of Panama is a former Spanish colony in Central America with a mixed population of Creoles, mestizos, European immigrants, Africans, and indigenous Indians.
- Despite this racial discourse, rural Belizean Creoles developed alternative systems of natural resource use based in part upon small-scale agricultural production.
- At the same time, certain ideas about relationships to the natural environment were a part of the racial formation of Belizean Creoles.
- Some urban-and often lighter skinned-Belizean Creoles were large landowners and merchants in the early to mid-nineteenth century, having inherited property from their wealthy white fathers.
- The urban elite is primarily Creole, mostly of Spanish descent.
- 1.2 A white descendant of French settlers in Louisiana and other parts of the southern US.
克里奥尔人(路易斯安那州和美国南部其他地区的法国移民的白人后裔) Example sentencesExamples - French Creoles dominated Louisiana, even after Spain officially took over the colony in the mid-eighteenth century and some Spanish settled there.
- His father had prospered in Louisiana and married a young Creole before returning to his native region.
- She married Oscar Chopin, a Creole, and went to live in New Orleans, Louisiana, spending her summers at Grand Isle, a fashionable resort off the south coast.
- Those early settlers of French descent came to be known as Creoles and still make up a central part of the state's community.
- In Louisiana the Creoles and Acadians rejected the cotton planters' Southern nationalism.
2A mother tongue formed from the contact of two languages through an earlier pidgin stage. a Portuguese-based Creole 葡萄牙语克里奥尔语。 Example sentencesExamples - As he refined his draft, snippets re-entered his memory in dialects of French, Spanish, Creole and English.
- But St Lucia has many areas with French names, and the locals speak both English and Creole.
- We are trying to develop a Jamaican sign language system for English and Jamaican Creole.
- Seychellois have three official languages: Creole, English, and French.
- Some Creole is spoken near the Haitian border and in the sugarcane villages, where many Haitian workers live.
- They are afraid that those who speak Creole will learn French, and no longer feel inferior.
- Most people on the islands speak a local dialect, or Creole, that combines elements of West African languages and French.
- The term Creole derives from the Portuguese word ‘crioulo’ meaning an individual of European ancestry who was born and reared abroad.
- Although French is the official language, Creole is the language of everyday life.
- The vernacular is a Creole, which is essentially fifteenth-century Portuguese with a simplified vocabulary and influences from Mandingo and several Senegambian languages.
- English is the official language, but English Creole is the language most people speak.
- While the spoken language is Creole, the schools teach in English, and French remains the language of prestige.
- The different groups speak their own languages, but the language spoken across ethnic lines is a form of pidgin English called Creole.
- While English is the official language, French, Creole, Bhojpuri and Urdu are widely spoken.
- But you know, they had the ballots available in like three different languages: Spanish and Creole in addition to English.
- The original language community of the Creoles was composed of French and Louisiana Creole.
- They insisted we speak Creole at home, join the local Haitian church and become active in our community to stay close to our Haitian roots.
- An English Creole arose on Saint Croix and is still spoken, although its use is generally limited to older islanders.
- Others learned the ways of local Indians, as Creoles before them had done, and as the Cajuns themselves had done earlier in Acadia / Nova Scotia.
- The lack of local Creole literature has prompted many Martinicans to deny that Creole constitutes a language.
Synonyms language, dialect, patois, vernacular, mother tongue, native tongue, jargon, argot, cant, pidgin, creole, lingua franca
adjectiveˈkriˌoʊlˈkrēˌōl Relating to a Creole or Creoles. (与)克里奥尔人(有关)的;(与)克里奥尔语(有关)的 Example sentencesExamples - Although the archetypal Belizean Creole of colonial commentary was male, women also were contributing to the development of rural Belizean Creole places.
- Turning around, I discover two beautiful Creole women, drinking beer and laughing like crazy.
- Inspired by Derek Walcott's epic poem ‘Omeros,’ it explores Creole identity.
- The mambo derives its power from Creole voodoo.
- Cemeteries held an important place in Creole life.
- My parents were among the cream of Creole society.
- Along with simple shot gun houses and Creole cottages, century-old landmarks were hit hard.
- Riddles play an important part in Creole folklore.
- The young men getting into trouble do not have Creole names.
- The capital of the island is Roseau, a town of bright painted shutters and Creole cafés, where the dreadlocks swing and fine large ladies laugh like avalanches
- But the exclusion of Creole cuisine from the top league table wouldn't meet with local approval.
- Low country cooking is very similar to Cajun or Creole cuisine.
- These discourses invalidate indigenous and Creole land claims in the popular imagination and inform the cultural politics of identity among coastal peoples.
- This energetic and erotic Creole dance has origins in the sugar fields, in the days when African labour was captive.
- In this Creole kind of interactive transaction, not only do you get what you want, but you also meet half the island in the process.
- But the role of the emergent rural and non-elite Creole population in transforming Belize's landscape throughout the nineteenth century is less clear.
- Women are the emotional and economic center of the household in many Creole groups but are subordinated in traditional, patriarchal Hindostani circles.
- They grew up together on and around Roman Street in the 7th Ward, the most intensely Creole part of town.
- Another first is the Bayou Cafe, a New Orleans-inspired Cajun and Creole eatery that features live jazz music accompaniment.
- We have our own architecture with the famous shotgun houses and Creole cottages and the mansions in the Garden District.
OriginFrom French créole, criole, from Spanish criollo, probably from Portuguese crioulo ‘black person born in Brazil’, from criar ‘to breed’, from Latin creare ‘produce, create’. |