CASTE meaning: Social hierarchy based on birth

We found 32 dictionaries that define the word caste:

General (25 matching dictionaries)

caste: Merriam-Webster
caste: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
caste: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
caste: Collins English Dictionary
caste: Vocabulary.com
Caste, caste: Wordnik
caste: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
caste: Wiktionary
caste: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
caste: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
caste: Infoplease Dictionary
caste: Dictionary.com
caste: Online Etymology Dictionary
caste: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Caste (biology), Caste (disambiguation), Caste (film), Caste (play), Caste (social), Caste: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Caste: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
caste: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
caste: Rhymezone
caste, caste (f): AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
caste: FreeDictionary.org
caste: Mnemonic Dictionary
caste: TheFreeDictionary.com
caste: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Caste (social), caste: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Caste (social), caste: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)

Sociology (No longer online)
Political (No longer online)

Religion (1 matching dictionary)

Irivng Hexham's Concise Dictionary of Religion (No longer online)

Science (1 matching dictionary)

Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

caste: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
▸ noun:  A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
▸ noun:  (zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

Similar:

subcaste, casteist, outcaste, intercaste, Dalit, Shudra, casteless, brahmin, varna, jati, more...

Opposite:

egalitarian, equal, classless, undivided, homogeneous

Types:

brahmin, kshatriya, vaishya, shudra, untouchables, more...

Phrases:

caste system, scheduled caste, high caste, upper caste, military caste, more...

Adjectives:

low, high, half, military, upper, inter, own, priestly, sub, dominant, particular

Colors:

white, black, blue, red, yellow, more...