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caste    音標拼音: [k'æst]
n. 印度的世襲階級,(排他的)社會團體

印度的世襲階級,(排他的)社會團體

caste
n 1: social status or position conferred by a system based on
class; "lose caste by doing work beneath one's station"
2: (Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified
according to ritual purity
3: a social class separated from others by distinctions of
hereditary rank or profession or wealth
4: in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct
individual or group of individuals specialized to perform
certain functions in the colony

Caste \Caste\, n. [Pg. casta race, lineage, fr. L. castus pure,
chaste: cf. F. caste, of same origin.]
1. One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindu are
divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.
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Note: The members of the same caste are theoretically of
equal rank, and same profession or occupation, and may
not eat or intermarry with those not of their own
caste. The original are four, viz., the Brahmans, or
sacerdotal order; the Kshatriyas, or soldiers and
rulers; the Vaisyas, or husbandmen and merchants; and
the Sudras, or laborers and mechanics. Men of no caste
are Pariahs, outcasts. Numerous mixed classes, or
castes, have sprung up in the progress of time.
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2. A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society
who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.
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The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste.
--Macaulay.
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{To lose caste}, to be degraded from the caste to which one
has belonged; to lose social position or consideration.
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