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What is a creole?

What is a creole? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (linguistics) A lect formed from two or more languages which has developed from a pidgin to become a first language.
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With the arrival of the Spanish in 1532, the current mestizo and creole cultures of Piura were born.
However, it is also variously described as a creole or as a partially creolised language.
The local Cape Verdean community speak a similar Portuguese creole, Cape Verdean Creole, and standard Portuguese.
The Middle English creole hypothesis argues that English is itself a creole.
The creole cooks have made famous such dishes as chicken gumbo, chicken la creole, and pompano.
He is a creole of this country, and is ordained as reader on the epistle side.

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