caste 
caste (kast, käst)
noun
- any of the distinct, hereditary Hindu social classes, each traditionally, but no longer officially, excluded from social dealings with the others
- any exclusive and restrictive social or occupational class or group
- rigid class distinction based on birth, wealth, etc., operating as a social system or principle
- any of the differentiated types of individuals in a colony of social insects
Etymology: Fr < Port casta, breed, race, caste < L castus, pure, chaste, orig., cut off, separated, pp. of carere, to be cut off from < IE base *es-, to cut > MIr cess, spear
lose caste
to lose social status or position
caste
n.
Converse of object
- schedule: The British referred to them as 'the scheduled castes ' .
- lose: Davenport looks to be running into form and lost no caste in defeat behind Trafalgar Square in the soft at Goodwood last time.
Adjective modifier
- priestly: Their priestly caste were the best placed to use these archives to write a sacred history with a political purpose in mind.
- bureaucratic: He expressed the interests of this bureaucratic caste ever more clearly.
- privileged: The other gave birth to a new privileged caste.
- scheduled: All states are now required to have 33 % representation of women in local governance with scheduled castes and tribes having proportionate representation.
- upper: In India this is still largely upper caste in its composition.
- dominant: In the presence of a perceived crisis, the dominant castes see themselves as the representatives of Hinduism.
Modifies a noun
- Hindu: Lower caste Hindus have formed their own political group, which has now taken control of state governments.
- hierarchy: But in practice a local caste hierarchy may correspond only very loosely with the ideal.
- discrimination: The Indian government banned caste discrimination at independence from Britain in 1947.
- system: Hinduism has a rigid caste system which often results in pressure on the young to ensure they don't marry into the wrong caste.
- status: Caste status is determined not by clothes but by relationship to the party.
- society: A variant of caste society was created to support the army.
Noun used with modifier
- ruling: The Turk, being of the ruling caste, must have the last word.
- warrior: On the other, the younger sons of the warrior caste sought pay, booty and estates to maintain themselves.
- officer: The Church of England demands to have its say; threats of mutiny come from the officer caste.
- worker: Worker caste polymorphism has a genetic basis in a leaf-cutting ant.
Preposition: in
- defeat: Davenport looks to be running into form and lost no caste in defeat behind Trafalgar Square in the soft at Goodwood last time.
Preposition: of
- priest: On the fringes of the empire, the caste of priests had to devise new ways of earning a crust.
On a voulu, a' tort, faire de la bourgeoisie une classe. La bourgeoisie est tout simplement la portion contente¤ e du peuple. Le bourgeois, c'est l'homme qui a maintenant le temps de s'asseoir.Une chaise n'est pas une caste. Humboldt Wrongly, one wanted to make the bourgeoisie a class. The bourgeoisie is simply a contented section of the public. A bourgeois is a man who now has the time to sit down. A chair is not a caste.
It is a great war for the emancipation of Europe from the thralldom of a military caste which has thrown its shadows upon two generations of men, and is now plunging theworld intoawelterof bloodshedand death.
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