caste

IPA: kˈæst

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.
(zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

Examples of "caste" in Sentences

That figure sounds way too low if caste is defined as jati, at least for Bombay.
The word caste is infact a Portuguese word and primarily refers to the caste systems found in South America.
Let me remove the word caste for it is politically incorrect etiquette and use the word traditional panchayats.
But the word "caste" is routinely used by government experts to refer to social strata in underprivileged Muslim communities.
The word caste is derived from the spanish word casta which means breed, race, strain or hereditary complex of hereditary qualities.
The following is taken from Rumer Godden's short story "The Oyster," about a young Indian, Gopal, of the Hindu Brahmin caste, who is happily studying in France and learning all things western.
It may seem to many of my readers that to use the term caste as a principle which impels one Scotchman to help another is not exactly correct; and I must admit to having some doubts on the subject myself.
The thing about wealth, though, (and I think when we talk class these days, for most people in North America, we are talking about finances, for class as caste is less deeply ingrained here) is that it ebbs and flows.