Usually means: Mixed language developed from colonization.
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We found 36 dictionaries that define the word Creole:

General (29 matching dictionaries)
  1. Creole, creole: Merriam-Webster
  2. Creole, creole: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. Creole: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. creole: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Creole, creole: Vocabulary.com
  6. Creole, creole: Wordnik
  7. Creole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. Creole, creole: Wiktionary
  9. Creole: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. Creole: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. Creole: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Creole, creole: Dictionary.com
  13. creole: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. creole: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Creole (album), Creole (disambiguation), Creole (language), Creole (markup), Creole (people), Creole: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Creole: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. creole: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. creole: Rhymezone
  19. Creole: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. creole: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. CREOLE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. creole: FreeDictionary.org
  23. creole: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. Creole: TheFreeDictionary.com
  25. creole: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  26. Creole: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  27. creole: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Cheese Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Creole: art glossary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Creole (disambiguation), Creole (language), creole: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. CREOLE: Acronym Finder

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Creole: Anthropological Terms
  2. Anthropology dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. creole: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See creoles as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (creole)

noun:  (linguistics) A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
noun:  (jewelry) A style of hoop earrings with a hoop that has an inconsistent thickness and/or is elongated in shape.
noun:  A descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country.
noun:  Anyone with mixed ancestry born in a country colonized by Europeans, now especially one who speaks a creole language.
noun:  Someone of African descent who is born in the Caribbean or Americas (originally as opposed to an African immigrant).
noun:  A native-born of Francophone descent in the Louisiana territory of any race, as opposed to Anglo-American settlers.
adjective:  Pertaining to or characteristic of someone who is a Creole.
adjective:  (of a person) That is a Creole; especially, born in a colonized country different from that of his or her ancestors.
adjective:  Designating a creolized language.
adjective:  (cooking) Prepared according to a cooking style developed in a Creole area, now especially that of Louisiana, characterised by a mixture of European and African influences.
noun:  Any specific creole language, especially that of Haiti.
noun:  (historical) Alternative letter-case form of Creole (“person born in a colony”) [A descendant of European settlers who is born in a colonized country.]

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