caste
/kɑːst/ · noun
Meaning
- Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
- A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
- A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
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