Word.ws English Dictionary

Dalits

Dalits is the plural of Dalit.

Meaning of Dalit

Noun

Dalit (plural Dalits)

  1. A member of a South Asian group of people traditionally regarded as untouchables or outcastes.
    • Jogendra Nath Mandal was the first leader to fight for a further identity of the Dalits, holding that they were neither Hindus nor Muslims.
    Synonyms:
    untouchable

Questions about Dalits

What is Dalits the plural of?
Dalits is the plural of Dalit.

Words near Dalits in the dictionary

  1. Dalimir
  2. Dalinian
  3. Dalio
  4. Dalipe
  5. Dalit
  6. Dalits
  7. Daliu
  8. dalk
  9. Dalke
  10. Dalkeith
  11. Dalkes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Dalits (page history and authors); Dalit (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Dalits.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/dalits. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.