Creole

Từ điển Oxford Advanced Learner 8th

Cre·ole [Creole Creoles] BrE [ˈkriːəʊl] NAmE [ˈkriːoʊl] (also creole) noun
1. countable a person of mixed European and African race, especially one who lives in the West Indies
2. countable a person whose ↑ancestors were among the first Europeans who settled in the West Indies or S America, or one of the French or Spanish people who settled in the southern states of the US
•Creole cookery
3. uncountable a language formed when a mixture of a European language with a local language (especially an African language spoken by ↑slaves in the West Indies) is spoken as a first language
compare ↑pidgin

Word Origin:
from French créole, criole, from Spanish criollo, probably from Portuguese crioulo ‘black person born in Brazil’, from criar ‘to breed’, from Latin creare ‘produce, create’.

Example Bank:
•Most of the population speak a creole with a French-derived vocabulary
•The two girls were speaking Creole.