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caste

/kæst/

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What does caste mean?

noun

  1. Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
  2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
  3. The division of society into castes; the caste system.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

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IPA pronunciation

/kæst/

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When I saw them for the first time, I believed them to be of the Gypsy caste, but was soon undeceived.
George BorrowThe Zincali: An Account of the Gypsies of SpainProject Gutenberg ebook #565
The magistrates themselves admitted it, and yet out of caste considerations they did all they could to prevent the pardon being signed.
Gustave Le BonThe crowd : $b A study of the popular mindProject Gutenberg ebook #445
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It was to be the grand realization of my hopes, the utter, the inevitable defeat of the minions of pride, prejudice, caste.
Henry Ossian FlipperHenry Ossian Flipper, the Colored Cadet at West Point Autobiography of Lieut. Henry Ossian Flipper, U.S.A., First Graduate of Color from the U.S. Military AcademyProject Gutenberg ebook #2448
With a cultured parentage and a social caste to uphold him, he might have made a venturesome merchant or a West Point cadet.
VariousThe Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, 1995, Memorial IssueProject Gutenberg ebook #206
There is an account of a religious mendicant of the Jain caste who as a means of penance fasted for ninety-one days.
George M. (George Milbrey) Gould; Walter L. (Walter Lytle) PyleAnomalies and Curiosities of MedicineProject Gutenberg ebook #747