noun
plural -oles
[count] :a person who has African and French or Spanish ancestors especially; :such a person who lives in the West Indies
[count] :a person whose ancestors were some of the first people from France or Spain to live in the southeastern U.S.
Creoles continue to have the same language and culture as their French or Spanish ancestors.
[noncount] :a language that is based on French and that uses words from African languages
b creole [count] linguistics :a language that is based on one language but that has some words from another language