caste
/kæst/ noun C1- Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
- A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
- The division of society into castes; the caste system.
- A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony. · In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.
Plural castes
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