castes
- plural of caste.
Example Sentences
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Over the years, quotas have grown to encompass many other groups, including politically powerful landowning castes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 15, 2026
Proteins, of course; RNA acts as the major-domo, a bridge between the castes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2025
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
They had very different visions, one of an agrarian caste nation and the other an industrial power based on class, theoretically open to all races or castes.
From Salon ● Oct. 12, 2024
A great body of men were thus very often assembled together, who resolved themselves into hostile classes, separated as any two castes of the Hindoos.
From The Sea: Its Stirring Story of Adventure, Peril, & Heroism. Volume 1 by Whymper, Frederick
