caste

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.

   “Pakistan is a conservative, religious state. The Edhi Foundation is unusual in its ignoring of caste, creed, religion and sect. This strict stance has led to some criticism from religious groups.”

2. isim A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.

   “Ah! Can you give me all I've asked for — not now, nor a few months later, but when you begin to think of what you might have done if you had kept your own appointment and your caste here — when you begin to look upon me as a drag and a burden?”

3. isim The division of society into castes; the caste system.

   “It was an evidence of the peculiar nature of caste in country towns[.]”

4. isim A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

   “In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.”