Synonyms:
caste
Meaning: in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony
Synonyms:
caste
Meaning: a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
Synonyms:
caste
Meaning: (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity
Synonyms:
caste
Meaning: social status or position conferred by a system based on class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station"
Usage examples
The race problem in America is in part one of caste sentiment, whatever can or cannot be done about it.
It exists in some form throughout the world, and where it is not called by that name, the same caste spirit is at work.
I do not know why the Bar has always seemed the most respectable of the professions, a profession which the hero of almost any novel could adopt without losing caste.
He felt some dim realization of the tyranny of caste, when he found it not merely pressing upon an inferior people who had no right to expect anything better, but barring his own way to something that he desired.
Look at me: I can cook, but I must not cook; I am skilful with the needle, but I must not take in sewing; I could keep accounts; I could nurse the sick; but I must not." Nowhere in the world is there less caste than in America, but it is here.