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• It is Hinduness that has drawn the multitudes – beyond upper castes – to BJP.2019 June 6, Rahul Shivshankar, “The age of Hinduness: Modi has disavowed hard Hindutva for the humanism of ‘Hinduness’”, in The Times of…. From the entry Hinduness
• In accordance with their divided "specialities" the social sciences divisively aspectualize the "caste problem".2014, D. Venkat Rao, Cultures of Memory in South Asia, page 311. From the entry aspectualize
• The chowpal (courtyard) was full of talks about individuals, quarrels, and questions of caste behaviours.2002, Politics and Culture: Essays in Honour of Serajul Islam Choudhury, page 347. From the entry chowpal
• You see, comrade, from local standpoint, these caste issues are very deep-rooted.”1997, Arundhati Roy, chapter 14, in The God of Small Things, New York: Random House, page 263. From the entry deep-rooted
• There is never a mixing of castes in a chaupal except on very special occasions.1967, David Coxe Cooke, Dera, a Village in India, page 46. From the entry chaupal
• Betas are usually second in command to the reigning alpha, and omegas belong to the lowest caste of the social hierarchy.2018, Laura Campillo Arnaiz, “When the Omega Empath Met the Alpha Doctor: An Analysis of Alpha/Beta/Omega Dynamics in the Hannibal…. From the entry beta
• Songbun is a caste system that operates in North Korea.2015, Hyeonseo Lee, The Girl with Seven Names: A North Korean Defector’s Story. From the entry songbun
• My favorite bloodswap castes for karkat are fuchsia and indigo.2013 April 8, avery (@leirant), Twitter. From the entry bloodswap
• Because mass incarceration is officially colorblind, it seems inconceivable that the system could function much like a racial caste system.2012, Michelle Alexander, The New Jim Crow, →ISBN, page 183. From the entry color blind
• The senior managements were the most highly paid professional caste in Europe, a new elite of administrators, énarques and scientific entrepreneurs.2000, JG Ballard, Super-Cannes, Fourth Estate, published 2011, page 5. From the entry énarque
• An uncle of mine in Delhi thinks that I have become polluted, that I have lost caste by working with leather.1993, Vikram Seth, A Suitable Boy, London: QPD, Chapter 9.11, p. 577. From the entry lose caste
• Few men have ever had a stronger conviction of their clerisy, of their belonging to the clerkly caste of the responsibles.1986, Kenneth Rexroth, Bradford Morrow, Classics Revisited, page 174. From the entry clerisy
• They had become a superior, leisured caste.1961, V. S. Naipaul, A House for Mr Biswas, Vintage International, published 2001, Part Two, Chapter 4. From the entry leisured
• This is why the mathematical arts were founded in Egypt; for there the priestly caste was allowed to be at leisure.1908, Aristotle, translated by William David Ross, Metaphysics. From the entry leisure
• Originally, only Brahmins (the highest Indian caste) were allowed to make the mustard sauce, but now it's open season for kasundi making.2021 October 12, Cecily Wong, Dylan Thomas, “Pantry Staple: Mustard”, in Gastro Obscura: A Food Adventurer's Guide, Workman Publishing…. From the entry kasundi
• Srinivas himself observed situations when lower castes attempting to observe upper-caste practices were subjected to censure and punishment from upper castes initially.2019, Divya Vaid, Ankur Datta, “Caste and Contemporary Hindu Society: Community, Politics, and Work”, in Torkel Brekke, editor, The Oxford…. From the entry Sanskritize
• Second, Roman Catholicism in India dilly-dallied on the caste question, treating ‘caste’ as an adiaphora which was not significant in matters relating to salvation.2015, Ankur Barua, Debating ‘Conversion’ in Hinduism and Christianity (Routledge Hindu Studies Series) (hardback) (e-book), chapter v…. From the entry adiaphora
• If Indians endorse literature that endorses caste, all it means is that such admirers are also unabashed casteists or apologists for caste.2015, Kamala Narasimha, Life-Breath and the Truth: The Real and the Delusory. From the entry casteist
• In honor of us navy folks, the room was swathed in a turquoisy blue that Verity had designated the caste color of Homo sapiens.2014, James Alan Gardner, Hunted. From the entry turquoisy
• India's agrarian system is based on large wealthy landholders and unlanded peasants, formerly of the lower caste, who are alienated from the current economic structure.2011, Jonathan White, Terrorism and Homeland Security. From the entry landholder
• Or is it simply sedative patronisation, bread and circuses devised by a cynical caste of free marketeers who presumptuously underestimate the collective intellect?2009 April 30, Jonathan Meades, “Yesterday’s Tomorrow: Militant Modernism, Owen Hatherley, Zero Books, 146pp, £9.99 [book review]”, in New…. From the entry bread and circuses
• He is adored by millions as a man of the people because he is of a lower caste — a rarity among politicians.2008 February 28, Simon Robinson, “Working on the Railroad: On the Mangala Lakshadweep Express”, in Time, retrieved 16 Oct 2013. From the entry man of the people
• Being from a lower caste, she earns her meager livelihood by cleaning the stairs and guarding the locality (the conventional roles are topsy turvyed).2007, “Portrayal of Diaspora Experiences”, in Basavaraj Naikar, editor, Indian English Literature, volume II, New Delhi: Atlantic…. From the entry topsy-turvy
• The Sanyasis, the Aryasamajis, the Sikhs and many others do not recognize the system of the four castes and yet are they foreigners?1923, Vinayak Damodar Savarkar, Essentials of Hindutva. From the entry Aryasamaji
• Poll observers feel the KNMK had purposefully fielded a weak candidate, R Natarajan, in Karur to help shift their votes to AIADMK's M Thambidurai, a Gounder by caste.2009 May 21, Jayaraj Sivan, “Gounder consolidation could pose headache to major parties”, in The Times of India, archived from the…. From the entry Gounder
• Maharashtra's barber community has decided not to give them a haircut or a shave because they have not done anything about the barbers' demand for scheduled caste status.2008 August 27, “Nagpur barbers split hair over SC [scheduled caste] status”, in The Times of India, Mumbai, Maharashtra: The Times Group…. From the entry Gandhigiri
• The number of strips tied around a pagdi decides the status of a person, the colour signifies the occasion and the style shows the caste and clan.1998, RC Sharma, Thar: The Great Indian Desert, page 80. From the entry pagdi
• Recent studies indicate that queenless societies can have either one or several gamergates per colony, which reveals that reproductive inhibition can occur despite the absence of the queen caste.1990, Christian Peeters, “Monogyny and Polygyny in Ponerine Ants Without Queens”, in Social Insects and the Environment: Proceedings of…. From the entry gamergate
• By the nature of being on a protective custody tank, a "gay tank", everyone there is seen as members of the lowest caste in the system.1985 April 13, Philip Brasfield, “Echoes Inside of What's Outside”, in Gay Community News, page 4. From the entry tank
• Unless we're true to our caste, and prepared to work for it, the landed classes are going to go under to this infernal democratic spirit in the air.1912, John Galsworthy, The Eldest Son, act I. From the entry everybody who is anybody
• They did that to separate people, to create a caste system, to protect the notion of whiteness, to protect whiteness from the merest ‘impurity’, from the merest influx of colour.2021 November 7, Claire [G.] Coleman, “Not quite blak enough: ‘The people who think I am too white to be Aboriginal are all white’”, in…. From the entry one-drop rule
• The tsunami of around 1.5 million exiles who accompanied Chiang to Taiwan produced two castes: benshengren — people from this province — and waishengren — people from outside this province.2021 August 4, Sarah A. Topol, “Is Taiwan Next?”, in The New York Times Magazine. From the entry benshengren
• Dhomes are quite a large caste throughout India, but these, though known as Dhomes, are differentiated by the appellation Maghaya; in fact, they have no real connection with the Dhomes.1921, The Asiatic Review, page 288. From the entry Dhome

Meaning of caste

1. noun Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
2. noun A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
3. noun The division of society into castes; the caste system.

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Questions about caste in a sentence

How do you use caste in a sentence?

Caste is used as a noun. For example: “In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.”

What is a short sentence with caste?

“The tinkers then formed a hereditary caste.”

What does caste mean?

Caste means any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.