caste
castes
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pluralof caste.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Last year, the government announced a census to enumerate the country’s castes officially.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Over the years, quotas have grown to encompass many other groups, including politically powerful landowning castes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Reports say this careful selection of judges, representing different genders, religions, castes and regions, will help "lend wider legitimacy to a verdict that will inevitably traverse contested terrain".
From BBC ● Apr. 7, 2026
Most ants have two morphologically differentiated adult castes -- queens and workers -- each irreversibly specialized for either reproduction or nonreproductive altruism such as foraging, defense and care of maternal brood.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 22, 2024
Among the higher castes there is an unusually large proportion of Brahmans, a circumstance due to the number of sacred places which the district contains.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various
