Castes is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CASTES in dictionary:

NOUN:
• CASTE, a system of distinct social classes
• each of the hereditary classes of Hindu society, distinguished by relative degrees of ritual purity or pollution and of social status
• the system of dividing society into castes
• any class or group of people who inherit exclusive privileges or are perceived as socially distinct
• (in some social insects) a class of physically distinct individuals with a particular function in the society

Words related to CASTES

caste7

Words that contain CASTES

outcastes11 subcastes13 intercastes13

How to use CASTES in a sentence

• There were other birds which would not eat his food, but found abundance, suited to their respective castes, among the shrubs and trees that he had planted.
• It is true that I was informed that matters could never be altered as long as the Hindoos were divided into castes.
• It is not that people are unwilling to condescend to the castes below them.
• Membership in the labor castes will become hereditary.
• They will be like the guards of the palace in old Rome, and there will be palace revolutions whereby the labor castes will seize the reins of power.
• The members of the great labor castes were contented and worked on merrily.
• In reality they are recruited from various castes, some parents making it a point to offer their third daughter to the Brahmans.
• He is invoked by Hindus of all sects and castes before undertaking any business of importance.
• We should of course pay due regard in this respect to the customs of the various castes, religions and nationalities concerned.
• The very idea of their emancipation is distasteful to the higher castes, who enjoy in most parts of India an almost exclusive monopoly of the land.
• Others, again, think that the four castes together with the Nishadas are meant.
• Among themselves there were established castes, and members of each despised the lower and hated the upper.
• Social life in India tends to combine men in castes or in communities which if not castes in the technical sense have much the same character.
• Thirdly, it is not connected with low castes, with orgies, with obscene or bloodthirsty rites or with anything which can be called un-Aryan.
• Yet in spite of these proceedings the sect still flourishes, apparently unchanged in doctrine and practice, and has a large following among the mercantile castes of western India.
• Only the higher castes could compete in examinations or hold office and there were continual struggles and quarrels between the military and civil classes.
• These divisions corresponded, as is evident, to our three ancient castes, the clergy, the nobility, and the third estate.
• It is very difficult even to guess at the number of the Indian castes.
• Many hundreds of bees make up a hive, and they belong to three classes or castes, which differ in structure and social function.
• They are only now beginning to extend their activities to the depressed castes of Northern India, but in Southern India important results have already been achieved.
• Gokhale was specially proud, as he is very anxious that the society shall be, in fact as well as in theory, representative of all castes and creeds.
• This kind of division of the workers into two castes occurs among several tropical species of ants, but it is also present in the Italian species, Colobopsis truncata.
• Such a land was aristocratic and tended to form castes.
• The others have been lost in a multitude of mixed castes formed by intermarriage, and bound together by similarity of trade or occupation.
• A curious feature is that as there are castes for all trades, so there are hereditary thief castes.
• Thirdly, there is gradually coming about a transformation of social castes.
• Obviously knowledge in the sense of philosophical speculation commended itself to religiously disposed persons in the non-sacerdotal castes for the same reason as asceticism.
• Men of all castes have risen to exalted positions, just as poor men, with none of the advantages of high birth, have in England.

Similar words containing CASTE without suffix s

caste7 casted9 caster8 casters9 casteism12 castella10 castered11 outcaste10 subcaste12 uncasted11 casteisms13 casteless11 castellan11 castellum13 decastere12 dicastery15 mobcasted16 outcasted12 outcastes11 podcasted15 podcaster14 subcastes13 vodcasted16 vodcaster15 webcasted17 webcaster16 castellans12 castellums14 decasteres13 forecasted16 forecaster15 hindcasted17 intercaste12 linecaster12 medicaster15 newscaster15 overcasted16 podcasters15 surfcaster15 telecasted13 telecaster12 typecaster17 vodcasters16 webcasters17 baitcaster14 spincaster14 broadcasted17 broadcaster16 cablecasted18 castellated14 colorcasted16 criticaster15 dicasteries14 forecasters16 linecasters13 medicasters16 newscasters16 roughcasted18 roughcaster17 simulcasted16 sportcaster15 surfcasters16 telecasters13 typecasters18 intercastes13 outcasteing14 baitcasters15 spincasters15 broadcasters17 castellation14 colourcasted17 criticasters16 narrowcasted18 politicaster16 roughcasters18 sportcasters16 sportscaster16 shadowcasted22 castellations15 politicasters17 rebroadcasted19 sportscasters17 weathercaster21 grammaticaster21 weathercasters22 grammaticasters22

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