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  • 41caste — noun ADJECTIVE ▪ high, low ▪ He belongs to one of the highest castes. ▪ low caste families VERB + CASTE ▪ belong to …

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  • 42Caste School of Race Relations — The label sometimes attached to those authors who applied the term caste to the separation between Whites and Blacks in the United States. The most notable publications in this mould are’s ‘American Caste and Class’ (American Journal of Sociology …

    Dictionary of sociology

  • 43caste mark — noun 1. : a mark or symbol that is worn on the forehead especially in India and denotes the wearer s caste 2. : a distinguishing characteristic or trait that identifies a member of a particular class or group the caste mark of the intellectual *… …

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  • 44caste — (ka st ) s. f. 1°   Chacune des tribus en lesquelles la société de l Inde est partagée. Il y a quatre castes : les prêtres, les guerriers, les marchands et agriculteurs, les gens de condition servile, en sanscrit brahmanes, kshatria, vaisia,… …

    Dictionnaire de la Langue Française d'Émile Littré

  • 45caste — n. 1) a warrior caste 2) a caste system * * * [kɑːst] a warrior caste a caste system …

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  • 46caste — [[t]kɑ͟ːst, kæ̱st[/t]] castes 1) N COUNT A caste is one of the traditional social classes into which people are divided in a Hindu society. Most of the upper castes worship the Goddess Kali. Syn: class 2) N UNCOUNT Caste is the system of dividing …

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  • 47Caste politique — Élitisme en France L’élitisme en France est l attitude favorisant la formation d une élite et l accession des individus jugés comme étant les meilleurs aux postes de responsabilité en France. Il s agit en ce sens d une valeur républicaine qui se… …

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  • 48CASTE —    rank in society of an exclusive nature due to birth or origin, such as prevails among the Hindus especially. Among them there are originally two great classes, the twice born and the once born, i. e. those who have passed through a second… …

    The Nuttall Encyclopaedia

  • 49caste — UK [kɑːst] / US [kæst] noun Word forms caste : singular caste plural castes 1) [countable/uncountable] one of the traditional social classes that people were born into in Hindu society, or the system of having these classes 2) [countable] a group …

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  • 50caste — n. 1 any of the Hindu hereditary classes whose members have no social contact with other classes, but are socially equal with one another and often follow the same occupations. 2 a more or less exclusive social class. 3 a system of such classes.… …

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