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caste
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[kɑːst], (Noun)
Definitions:
- each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status
(e.g: members of the lower castes)
Phrases:
- lose caste
Origin
:
mid 16th century (in the general sense ‘race, breed’): from Spanish and Portuguese casta ‘lineage, race, breed’, feminine of casto ‘pure, unmixed’, from Latin castus ‘chaste’
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