Synonyms for caste
kæst, kɑstcaste

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1. caste

   A class is a number or body of persons or objects having common pursuits, purposes, attributes, or characteristics. A caste is hereditary; a class may be independent of lineage or descent; membership in a caste is supposed to be for life; membership in a class may be very transient; a religious and ceremonial sacredness attaches to the caste, as not to the class. The rich and the poor form separate classes; yet individuals are constantly passing from each to the other; the classes in a college remain the same, but their membership changes every year. We speak of rank among hereditary nobility or military officers; of various orders of the priesthood; by accommodation, we may refer in a general way to the higher ranks, the lower orders of any society. Grade implies some regular scale of valuation, and some inherent qualities for which a person or thing is placed higher or lower in the scale; as, the coarser and finer grades of wool; a man of an inferior grade. A coterie is a small company of persons of similar tastes, who meet frequently in an informal way, rather for social enjoyment than for any serious purpose. Clique has always an unfavorable meaning. A clique is always fractional, implying some greater gathering of which it is a part; the association breaks up into cliques. Persons unite in a coterie through simple liking for one another; they withdraw into a clique largely through aversion to outsiders. A set, while exclusive, is more extensive than a clique, and chiefly of persons who are united by common social station, etc. Circle is similar in meaning to set, but of wider application; we speak of scientific and religious as well as of social circles.

   Synonyms:
   association, circle, clan, class, clique, club, company, coterie, grade, order, rank, set

   Preposition:
   A class of merchants; the senior class at (sometimes of) Harvard; the classes in college.

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.9 / 7 votes

1. caste

   Synonyms:
   order, class, rank, lineage, race, blood, dignity, respect

   Antonyms:
   degradation, taboo, disrepute, abasement, reproach

Princeton's WordNet

1. castenoun

   social status or position conferred by a system based on class

   "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station"

2. castenoun

   (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity

3. castenoun

   a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth

4. castenoun

   in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony

Matched Categories

1. • Hinduism
   • Animal Group
   • Class
   • Entomology
   • Status

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1. castenoun

   Synonyms:
   class, order, race

PPDB, the paraphrase databaseRate these paraphrases:0.0 / 0 votes

1. List of paraphrases for "caste":

   casta, castes, caste-based, sc, scs

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How to use caste in a sentence?

1. Tanuja Gupta:

   If there’s going to be a state that pioneers (protections against) caste discrimination, this is the perfect state. And if this state can show that it’s possible, there’s no excuse for any other state to not have (protections against) caste discrimination.

2. John Marshall Harlan:

   In view of the Constitution, in the eye of the law, there is in this country no superior, dominant, ruling class of citizens. There is no caste here. Our Constitution is colorblind, and neither knows nor tolerates classes among citizens.

3. Flavia Agnes:

   There are laws against bonded labor and against abuse, but these are poor, low-caste workers who are afraid of the higher-caste owners, they have to go back to the same fields to work. They have no option.

4. Thenmozhi Soundararajan:

   Caste has been here( in the US) for a long time, wherever South Asians go, they bring caste.

5. Dr. B. R. Ambedkar:

   Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe caste because they are deeply religious.