The term
Creole and its
cognates in other languages — such as
crioulo,
criollo,
creolo,
créole,
kriolu,
criol,
kreyol,
kreol,
kriol,
krio, etc. — have been applied to people in different countries and epochs, with rather different meanings. Typically, creole peoples are fully or almost fully descended from
white European colonial settlers. Their language, culture and/or
racial origin represents the
creolization resulting from the interaction and adaptation of colonial-era
emigrants from Europe with non-European peoples, climates, cuisines, etc.