<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a person born in the West Indies or Spanish America but of European, usually Spanish, ancestry.</li><li>a person born in Louisiana but of usually French ancestry.</li><li>a person of mixed Black and European, especially French or Spanish, ancestry who speaks a creolized form of French or Spanish.</li><li>a creole language.</li><li>the creolized French language of the descendants of the original settlers of Louisiana.</li><li>a Black person born in the Americas, as distinguished from one brought there from Africa.</li></ul><p><strong>Adjective:</strong></p><ul><li>Sometimes cre·ole: relating to or characteristic of a Creole or Creoles.</li><li>Cooking: indicating a spicy sauce or dish, especially one made with tomatoes, peppers, onions, celery, and seasonings, and often served with rice.</li><li>bred or growing in a country, but of foreign origin, as an animal or plant.</li></ul>