(亦作creole)
1
- a 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）。
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）。
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）。
2
- a 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 W. Indies), usually through an earlier pidgin stage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。
- of or relating to a Creole or Creoles（与）克里奥尔人（有关）的; （与）克里奥尔语（有关）的。
词源
from French créole, criole, from Spanish criollo, probably from Portuguese crioulo 'black person born in Brazil, home-born slave', from criar 'to breed', from Latin creare 'produce, create'.