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say it: kast
caste is a noun meaning "social status or position conferred by a system based on class". It carries 4 recorded senses.
social status or position conferred by a system based on class
“lose caste by doing work beneath one's station”
a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony
entomology
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for caste come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.