caste

[Caste]

The word caste was originally associated with India's traditional system of hereditary and rigidly stratified classes, but this noun can now be used to refer to any social group distinguished by shared characteristics, such as rank, economic wealth, or profession.

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One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

Noun
a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth

Noun
(Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity

Noun
social status or position conferred by a system based on class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one''s station"

n.
One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

n.
A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.

Caste

Caste , n. [Pg. casta race, lineage, fr. L. castus pure, chaste: cf. F. caste, of same origin.] 1. One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism. &hand; The members of the same caste are theoretically of equal rank, and same profession or occupation, and may not eat or intermarry with those not of their own caste. The original are four, viz., the Brahmans, or sacerdotal order; the Kshatriyas, or soldiers and rulers; the Vaisyas, or husbandmen and merchants; and the Sudras, or laborers and mechanics. Men of no caste are Pariahs, outcasts. Numerous mixed classes, or castes, have sprung up in the progress of time. 2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.

The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste.

To lose caste, to be degraded from the caste to which one has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.

One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindoos are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

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Usage Examples

If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.

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