Caste Meaning in Hindi

Adjective

  1. 1. अंत्यज (p. aMtyaja )
  2. 2. सवर्ण (p. savarNa )

Noun

  1. 1. जाति (p. jati )
  2. 2. जाति/वर्ण/गोत्र (p. jati/varN/gotr )
  3. 3. वर्ग (p. varg )
  4. 4. क़ौम (p. क़auma )
  5. 5. जात (p. jAta )
  6. 6. जात-पाँत (p. jAta-pA~ta )
  7. 7. भेद (p. bheda )

Caste Definitions and Meaning in English

  1. 1. Social status or position conferred by a system based on class
Usage

1. lose caste by doing work beneath one's station

Hypernyms

Caste Sentences from Popular Quotes and Books

1. "A chair is not a caste."
- Victor Hugo, Les Misérables

2. "It is as difficult to move down the caste ladder as it is to move up."
- Suketu Mehta, Maximum City: Bombay Lost and Found

3. "I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty---to one's friends and one's family and one's caste."
- Agatha Christie, Murder on the Orient Express

4. "if a man from Lower Caste should come to rule in a city, the city would come to ruin."
- John Norman, Tarnsman of Gor

5. "In a country which had accepted caste distinctions for many centuries, inequality had become an inborn mental concept."
- Khushwant Singh, Train To Pakistan

6. "in Bengal it was so easy to know who was who; more often than not, just to hear someone’s name would reveal their religion, their caste, their village."
- Amitav Ghosh, Sea of Poppies

7. "You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all."
- Naomi Wolf, The Beauty Myth

8. "If learning lessons from history is a mark of enlightenment, so is breaking free from it. This applies equally to every religion, caste, creed and group."
- S.L. Bhyrappa, Aavarana - The Veil

9. "Mrs. Greene made me understand the parallels between race and caste--- and how women's bodies were used to perpetuate both. Different prisons. Same key."
- Gloria Steinem, My Life on the Road

10. "As the Primal Being, Lord Shiva has neither ancestors, nor caste, neither guru, nor education, for he is the origin of all."
- Wolf-Dieter Storl, Shiva: The Wild God of Power and Ecstasy

 
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Related Similar & Broader Words of Caste

position,  status,  
 
 

More matches words for Caste

caste and community - जात-पाँत
caste aristocracy - कुलीनता
 

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