caste
Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
Other meanings
A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
The division of society into castes; the caste system.
Related words
- anticaste
- casted
- casteist
- castelike
- castemate
- castewise
- intercaste
- intracaste
- noncaste
- outcaste
- subcaste
- supercaste
Word history
From Latin "castus" (chaste"; "chastity).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “caste” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.