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A caste is a strict social class that a person is born into and usually cannot change, especially the traditional system found in Hindu society in India, which divides people into different groups with different social status and jobs. More broadly, 'caste' can describe any rigid, hard-to-cross social division in a society.
種姓（制度）；(廣義)階級
組成From a Portuguese word, 'casta,' meaning race or lineage, related to the Latin word for 'pure.'
同家族的字
- chasteshares the Latin root 'castus', meaning pure
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
castenoun/kɑːst/
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Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
- Pakistan is a conservative, religious state. The Edhi Foundation is unusual in its ignoring of caste, creed, religion and sect. This strict stance has led to some criticism from religious groups.
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A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
- Ah! Can you give me all I've asked for — not now, nor a few months later, but when you begin to think of what you might have done if you had kept your own appointment and your caste here — when you begin to look upon me as a drag and a burden?
- 'I believe, Messieurs, in loyalty - to one's friends and one's family and one's caste.'
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The division of society into castes; the caste system.
- It was an evidence of the peculiar nature of caste in country towns[.]
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biologynatural-scienceszoologyA class of polymorphous eusocial insects of a particular size and function within a colony.
- In beehives, most bees belong to the worker caste.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。