词源同create, 创造。原指欧洲殖民者，特别是西班牙人在南美，加勒比海区域与当地人生育的后代，后来也指这些后代所使用的语言，比较pidgin, Tok Pisin.
英文词源
creole
creole: see creature
creole (n.)
c. 1600, from French créole (17c.), from Spanish criollo "person native to a locality," from Portuguese crioulo, diminutive of cria "person (especially a servant) raised in one's house," from criar "to raise or bring up," from Latin creare "to produce, create" (see create).
The exact sense varies with local use. Originally with no connotation of color or race; Fowler (1926) writes: "Creole does not imply mixture of race, but denotes a person either of European or (now rarely) of negro descent born and naturalized in certain West Indian and American countries." In U.S. use, applied to descendants of French and Spanish settlers in Louisiana from at least 1792. Of languages, from 1879. As an adjective, from 1748.
实用例句
1. She begins speaking in the Creole of Haiti.
她开始说海地克里奥尔语。
来自柯林斯例句
2. Coconut Rice Balls is a Creole dish.
椰丝粉团是一道克里奥尔菜。
来自柯林斯例句
3. It helps to know French and Creole if you want to understand some of the lyrics.
如果你想读懂一些抒情诗，学点法语和克里奥尔语是有帮助的。
来自柯林斯例句
4. I heard that Maybelle's little Creole came home safely.
还有梅贝尔呢?我听说梅贝尔的小克留尔安全返家了.
来自飘（部分）
5. Creole started into something else, it was almost sardonic.
