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caste
/kæst/
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What does caste mean?
noun
- Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
- A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
- The division of society into castes; the caste system.
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noun
- A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
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IPA pronunciation
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See this word in context.
When I saw them for the first time, I believed them to be of the Gypsy caste, but was soon undeceived.
The magistrates themselves admitted it, and yet out of caste considerations they did all they could to prevent the pardon being signed.
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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.
With a cultured parentage and a social caste to uphold him, he might have made a venturesome merchant or a West Point cadet.
There is an account of a religious mendicant of the Jain caste who as a means of penance fasted for ninety-one days.