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intercaste

intercaste adjective: between different castes.

Adjective

intercaste (not comparable)

  1. Between different castes.
    • The news of an inter-caste marriage would upset Komal's maternal uncles, her mother reasoned, and she feared their wrath.2023, Radhika Iyengar, Fire on the Ganges, Fourth Estate, page 275

intercaste meaning in Hindi and Tamil

intercaste in Hindi

intercaste
अंतर्जातीय antarjātīya

intercaste in Tamil

குலக்கலப்புள்ள, இனக்கலப்புள்ள

Origin of intercaste

From inter- + caste.

Questions about intercaste

What does intercaste mean?
Intercaste means between different castes.
What is intercaste in Hindi?
Intercaste in Hindi is अंतर्जातीय (antarjātīya). See Intercaste meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is intercaste?
Intercaste is an adjective.

Words near intercaste in the dictionary

  1. intercaruncle
  2. intercaruncles
  3. intercaruncular
  4. intercase
  5. intercases
  6. intercaste
  7. intercategorical
  8. intercategorically
  9. intercategory
  10. intercatenated
  11. intercatenation

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: intercaste (page history and authors); अंतर्जातीय (Hindi) (page history and authors); intercaste (Tamil Wiktionary) (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.

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