what does the name creole mean
7. Creole. Louisiana Creole refers to native born people of various racial descent who are descended from the Colonial French and/or Spanish settlers of Colonial French Louisiana, before it became part of the United States in 1803 with the Louisiana Purchase with claim to the Creole culture and Creole cuisine.. a person born in Louisiana but of usually French ancestry. 3. (sometimes lowercase) a person of mixed black and European, esp. French or Spanish, ancestry who speaks a creolized form of French or Spanish. 4. (usually lowercase) a creolized language; a pidgin that has become the native language of a speech community.