caste
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
caste (plural castes)
- Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
- A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
- 1911, Thomas Babington Macaulay, “[https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/1911_Encyclop%C3%A6dia_Britannica/Bunyan,_John Bunyan, John]”, in 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica:
- The tinkers then formed a hereditary caste.
- (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
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