About The Word Caste
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Caste
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What's The Definition Of Caste?
[n] a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
[n] (Hindu) a hereditary social class stratified according to ritual purity [n] social status or position conferred by a system based on class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station" Synonyms | Synonyms for Caste: Related Terms | Find terms related to Caste: ashram | blood | body | bracket | branch | category | clan | class | colony | commonwealth | commune | community | condition | division | echelon | economic class | endogamous group | estate | extended family | family | footing | gens | grade | group | grouping | head | heading | hierarchy | kin | kinship group | label | level | moiety | nuclear family | order | phratria | phratry | phyle | pigeonhole | place | position | power structure | precedence | predicament | race | rank | rate | rating | rubric | section | sept | set | settlement | social class | society | sphere | stage | standing | station | status | strain | stratum | subcaste | subdivision | subgroup | suborder | title | totem See Also | Brahman | Brahmin | class | Kshatriya | position | Shudra | social class | socio-economic class | status | Sudra | Vaisya Caste In Webster's Dictionary \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.
Note: 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.
--Macaulay.
{To lose caste}, to be degraded from the caste to which one
has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.
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