Caste vs. Class

Castenoun

Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.

Castenoun

A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.

Castenoun

(zoology) A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

Castenoun

One of the hereditary classes into which the Hindu are divided according to the laws of Brahmanism.

Castenoun

A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly hold intercourse among themselves.

Castenoun

social status or position conferred by a system based on class;

Castenoun

(Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity

Castenoun

a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth

Caste

Caste is a form of social stratification characterized by endogamy, hereditary transmission of a style of life which often includes an occupation, ritual status in a hierarchy, and customary social interaction and exclusion based on cultural notions of purity and pollution. Its paradigmatic ethnographic example is the division of India's Hindu society into rigid social groups, with roots in India's ancient history and persisting to the present time.

Classnoun

(countable) A group, collection, category or set sharing characteristics or attributes.

Classnoun

A social grouping, based on job, wealth, etc. In Britain, society is commonly split into three main classes; upper class, middle class and working class.

Classnoun

(uncountable) The division of society into classes.

Classnoun

(uncountable) Admirable behavior; elegance.

Classnoun

A group of students in a regularly scheduled meeting with a teacher.

Classnoun

A series of lessons covering a single subject.

Classnoun

(countable) A group of students who commenced or completed their education during a particular year. A school class.

Classnoun

(countable) A category of seats in an airplane, train or other means of mass transportation.

Classnoun

A rank in the classification of organisms, below phylum and above order; a taxon of that rank.

Classnoun

Best of its kind.

Classnoun

(statistics) A grouping of data values in an interval, often used for computation of a frequency distribution.

Classnoun

(set theory) A collection of sets definable by a shared property.

Classnoun

(military) A group of people subject to be conscripted in the same military draft, or more narrowly those persons actually conscripted in a particular draft.

Classnoun

A set of objects having the same behavior (but typically differing in state), or a template defining such a set.

Classnoun

One of the sections into which a Methodist church or congregation is divided, supervised by a class leader.

Classverb

(transitive) To assign to a class; to classify.

Classverb

(intransitive) To be grouped or classed.

Classverb

(transitive) To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

Classadjective

great; fabulous

Classnoun

A group of individuals ranked together as possessing common characteristics; as, the different classes of society; the educated class; the lower classes.

Classnoun

A number of students in a school or college, of the same standing, or pursuing the same studies.

Classnoun

A comprehensive division of animate or inanimate objects, grouped together on account of their common characteristics, in any classification in natural science, and subdivided into orders, families, tribes, genera, etc.

Classnoun

A set; a kind or description, species or variety.

Classnoun

One of the sections into which a church or congregation is divided, and which is under the supervision of a class leader.

Classnoun

One session of formal instruction in which one or more teachers instruct a group on some subject. The class may be one of a course of classes, or a single special session.

Classnoun

A high degree of elegance, in dress or behavior; the quality of bearing oneself with dignity, grace, and social adeptness.

Classverb

To arrange in classes; to classify or refer to some class; as, to class words or passages.

Classverb

To divide into classes, as students; to form into, or place in, a class or classes.

Classverb

To be grouped or classed.

Classadjective

exhibiting refinement and high character; as, a class act. Opposite of low-class

Classnoun

people having the same social or economic status;

Classnoun

a body of students who are taught together;

Classnoun

education imparted in a series of lessons or class meetings;

Classnoun

a collection of things sharing a common attribute;

Classnoun

a body of students who graduate together;

Classnoun

a league ranked by quality;

Classnoun

elegance in dress or behavior;

Classnoun

(biology) a taxonomic group containing one or more orders

Classverb

arrange or order by classes or categories;