caste

/kæst/ n [C/U] social studies

Definition

› one of the traditional social groups in Hindu society › Caste can also refer generally to a social class system in any society: [U] The founders of the new nation rejected a social system based on caste.

(Definition of caste n from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

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