caste

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n. 印度的种姓制度, (排他的)社会团体

发音

UK /kɑːst/
其它 /kast/
SCOT /kast/
US /kæst/

词形变化

castes 复数 castes

别名

cast

教材释义与例句

名词

（印度社会中的）种姓；（具有严格等级差别的）社会地位；（排他的）社会团体

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.

    种姓

    种姓制度

  2. 2.

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

  3. 3.

    The division of society into castes; the caste system.

    不可数
  4. 4.

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

    生物 动物学

    In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 5

class position status stratum social class

下位词 1

jati

整体词 1

colony

相关短语

lose caste loses caste losing caste lost caste

词源

Borrowed from Portuguese or Spanish casta (“lineage, breed, race”), which the OED derives from Portuguese casto (“chaste”), from Latin castus (“chaste"; "chastity”), Coromines (1987) argues instead for a hypothetical Gothic form *𐌺𐌰𐍃𐍄𐍃 (*kasts, “group, collection of animals”), cognate with English cast, from Proto-Germanic *kastuz, from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ǵ-es-.

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