noun. Any of the hereditary, endogamous social classes or subclasses of traditional Hindu society, stratified according to Hindu ritual purity, especially the Brahman, Kshatriya, Vaisya, and Sudra castes.

noun. A social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank, profession, or wealth.

noun. undefined

noun. A social system or the principle of grading society based on castes.

noun. The social position or status conferred by a system based on castes.

noun. A specialized level in a colony of social insects, such as ants, in which the members, such as workers or soldiers, carry out a specific function.

noun. In entomology, any one of the distinct forms found among the polymorphic social insects, especially the true ants and the white ants or termites.

noun. Same as half-caste.

A Middle English variant of chaste.

noun. One of the artificial divisions or social classes into which the Hindus are rigidly separated according to the religious law of Brahmanism, and of which the privileges or disabilities are transmitted by inheritance.

noun. Hence A division of society, or the principle of grading society, according to external conditions; a class or grade separated from others by differences of wealth, hereditary rank or privileges, or by profession or employment.

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

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

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

noun. Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.

noun. in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony

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

"It may seem to many of my readers that to use the term caste as a principle which impels one Scotchman to help another is not exactly correct; and I must admit to having some doubts on the subject myself."

caste production  to lose caste  

animal group  class  position  social class  socio-economic class  

Brahmin  Kshatriya  Shudra  Vaishya  varna  

Nast  aghast  amassed  asked  ast  

aristocracy  clan  class  creed  despotism  

ashram  blood  body  bracket  branch  

castees  castes