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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By some estimates, the vast majority of India’s 1.5 billion people are divided into more than 3,000 castes and 25,000 subcastes.
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
Segregated living has existed in rural India for a long time where different castes and religions lived apart.
From BBC ● Dec. 6, 2024
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
In like manner eight of each of the agricultural and domestic castes, as well as of weavers and potters, and of all other castes: as also Nagas and Yakkos.
From Cultus Arborum Phallic Tree Worship by Anonymous
