Definitions
Wiktionary
- n. linguistics A dialect formed from two languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
Etymologies
- An adaptation of the Castilian Spanish criollo ("homey, local yokel"), from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria ("person raised in one’s house, servant"), from Portuguese criar ("to rear, to bring up"), from Latin creo ("to create"), which came into English via French between 1595 and 1605. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“You might want to read up on the term creole, friend.”
“The relationship between pidgin and creole is a fantastic analogy of the relationship between social software and the semantic web.”
“Similarly in the chapter about the way that the Portuguese language unites (or separates) Lusofonia, I’d love to have links to videos from Sri Lanka, where a Portuguese creole is still spoken in a few villages.”
“Again, I brought up the evolution of Indian English as a positive thing and I have never stated that a creole is a blight on the world…there seem to be a lot of blanks that you are creating and filling in on your own.”
“Later the so-called mulatos picked up the term crillos aka creole and used the popular term as an identity.”
Dr. Gabriela D. Lemus and Hector E. Sanchez: A Latino for the Supreme Court? It's Time
“Michif was not a pidgin language, nor was it what linguists call a creole language a pidgin that becomes a native tongue, which also has simplified rules of grammar and syntax.”
“A creole is the combination of one or more languages into a new, stable language.”
“The role of language contact in giving rise to similarities between languages that cut across family tree boundaries; this includes in particular work on perhaps the most extreme instances of language contact, namely creole and pidgin languages.”
“A variety of stories were circulated, some pretended to trace the crime to the Intendant's wife, whilst others alleged that the avenging mother of the creole was the assassin; some again urged that”
“Madame de Fontanges was a creole, that is, born in the West Indies, of”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘creole’.
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food collection
bread, peel, pot, chorizo, Filet, olive, fill, Phyllo, dough, bake, mat, pinot and 988 more...
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Things from my memory
nigger baby, mexican jumping bean, puddle jumper, mood ring, pet rock, cat scratch fever, taxman, hippie, vaseline, argyrol, mercurchrome, methiolade and 655 more...
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colleen's words
yellow, green, pie, blue, fur, people, incense, book, brown, avuncular, mountain, fog and 1316 more...
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inkhorn's Words
inkhorn, aplomb, apotheosis, asinine, avatar, bombastic, boorish, bromide, bucolic, cagey, canvass, digress and 991 more...
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imogen's Words
coagitate, cloche, harum-scarum, foxglove, cryptolect, cant, roux, angora, duff, ulysse, schadenfreude, pepperpot and 315 more...
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seventhspice's Words
supine, distaff, lest, janissary, articulator, chaos, scrumptious, charlatan, alacrity, papyrus, corollary, funicular and 106 more...
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sionnach's Words
contumely, fomite, holmgang, poltroon, eleemosynary, obsidian, nugatory, grindcore, felch, recrudescent, pyx, parenteral and 3271 more...
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concerning language
jargon, pidgin, Tok Pisin, Pidgin English, creole, creolize, portmanteau word, portmanteau
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Next!
salvific, redemptive, salvic, roil, changeling, barrow, burro, sow, swath, haymow, shock, sheaves and 190 more...
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Sociolinguistics Words
words related to sociolinguistics
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linguistics
words associated with language and linguistics
subjunctive, grammar, accent, adjective, adverb, bilingual, case, conjugation, consonant, creole, dialect, diphthong and 33 more...
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The Awakening
Interesting words from "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin.
befurbelowed, lugger, pension, quadroon, bonbons, peignoir, rockaway, friandises, creole, accouchements, vouchsafe, remonstrate and 30 more...
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uberWENSCH's Words
glisten, uxorious, staccato, mellifluous, eminence grise, cuckold, brilliantine, stave, elan, porte cochere, donjon, ars and 61 more...
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gregtmills's Words
scurrilous, weltschmerz, rain, picayune, poetaster, dogsbody, klangspiel, zaftig, template, pert, zounds, cat and 34 more...
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Words: C
conscientious, conscientiously, contingent, contingency, compute, cube root, china jute, culver's root, chute, creole, culs de sac, concierge and 5 more...
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sionnach of or relating to a language that arises from contact between two other languages and has features of both.
A language derived from a pidgin but more complex in grammar and vocabulary than the ancestral pidgin because it has become the native tongue of a community.
Feb 26, 2007