Caste

Noun

 * 1) Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.

Adjectives for Caste
learned; distinct; priestly; inconvenient; sacerdotal; perpetual; ethic; transparent; time-honored.

Verbs for Caste
ally with—; define—; distinguish—; forfeit —; form—; found—; isolate—; loathe— organize— preside over—; privilege— qualify for—; restrict—; revile—; unite— weld—; —aggregates; —collects; —confines to; —excludes; —groups; —practices; — inhabits; —resembles; —serves; —succumbs.

Synonyms for Caste
rank, race, class, lineage, blood, order, descent, ancestry.

Thesaurus
rank, rate, rating, rubric, section, sept, set, settlement, social class, society, sphere, stage, standing, station, status, strain, stratum, subcaste, subdivision, subgroup, suborder, title, totem, 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,

Etymology
From or  casta:, of uncertain origin. The OED derives it from casto:, from  castus:. Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical form undefined:, cognate with  cast:, from

Hyponyms

 * Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna

Noun

 * Arabic: طبقة, طبقية (system)
 * Armenian:
 * Bosnian:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 種姓, 种姓 (種姓制度, 种姓制度, (zhǒngxìng zhìdù) - system)
 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:
 * Gujarati: જાત (jāt), જાતિ (jāti) , નાત (nāt) , ન્યાત (nyāt) , વર્ણ (var.n) , જ્ઞાતિ (gnyāti) , કોળી (ko.lī)
 * Hebrew: קאסטה (kasta)
 * Hindi:, ,  जात,  वर्णाश्रम,  खेत,  ,  न्याति
 * Hungarian:
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: カースト, ジャーティ
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian:
 * Japanese: カースト, ジャーティ


 * Korean: 카스트 (kaseuteu), 카스트제도 (kaseuteujedo)
 * Malay: ,
 * Malayalam: ജാതി, വര്‍ണ്ണം, കുലം, കൂട്ടം, ഗോത്രം
 * Maori: tātai
 * Marathi: जात-जमात
 * Nepali: काय (kāya)
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian: (kāst),  (tabaqe),  (zāt),  (nasl)
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Punjabi: ਜਾਤਿ
 * Russian:, варна
 * Sanskrit: ,
 * Serbian:
 * Cyrillic: каста
 * Roman: kasta
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:
 * Tamil: சாதி
 * Telugu: వర్ణము (varnamu)
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: (jāt),  (zāt) ,  (varṇāśram) ,  (khet) ,  (kul) ,  (nyāti)
 * Tamil: சாதி
 * Telugu: వర్ణము (varnamu)
 * Turkish:
 * Urdu: (jāt),  (zāt) ,  (varṇāśram) ,  (khet) ,  (kul) ,  (nyāti)

Anagrams

 * sceat
 * Stace

Adjective
caste


 * 1) Feminine plural form of casto

Noun
caste



Anagrams

 * cesta