caste

About 10.60 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
2. noun A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
3. noun The division of society into castes; the caste system.
4. noun A class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.

   In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.

Similar words

casta sect doctrine strata class scs box grading breed stratification

Often followed by

system and of in or hindus is groups people

Word family

casteism casteisms castes