postcreole

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adjective

After a creole; after decreolization has taken place.

OriginEnglish creole ← French créole ← Spanish criollo →
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Meanings

adjectivepostcreole (not comparable)
  1. not comparablehuman sciencesAfter a creole; after decreolization has taken place.

    There is a postcreole situation when the creole has lost most of its speakers, as in Louisiana[…]

    2010, Concise Encyclopedia of Languages of the World, page 870
nounpostcreole (plural postcreoles)

plural postcreoles

  1. human sciencesA creole language after decreolization has taken place.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*pós
  2. Proto-Indo-European*pósti
  3. Proto-Italic*posti
  4. Old Latinposte
  5. Latinpost
  6. Englishpost-
  7. Portuguesecrioulo
  8. Spanishcriollo
  9. Frenchcréole
  10. EnglishCreole
  11. Englishcreole
  12. Englishpostcreole

From post- + creole.

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Cite this entry
APA

postcreole. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcreole

MLA

“postcreole.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcreole. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “postcreole,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/postcreole.

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