creole

Etymology

See Creole. Attested in English to refer to language from the 18th century.

noun

1. (linguistics) A language formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
   There are three orders of people: those who were alive when the French possessed the island: they understand the good French; those who were born in the heat of the Revolution, and who have arrived at maturity without instruction, these speak only Creole[…] 1818, The Methodist Magazine, page 317
   From the point of view of syntactic analysis, I have shown how transformational theory may be applied to the syntax of a Creole language. 1966, Beryl Loftman Bailey, Jamaican Creole Syntax, page 144
2. Alternative letter-case form of Creole (“person born in a colony”)
3. a style of hoop earrings that comprise of a hoop that has an inconsistent thickness and/or is elongated in shape