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Definition: Caste System |
Caste SystemNoun1. A social structure in which classes are determined by heredity. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Crosswords: Caste System |
| English words defined with "caste system": caste ♦ Hindooism, Hinduism. (references) |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | India | The BJP officially agrees that the caste system should be eliminated, but many of its members are ambivalent about this. (references) |
Discrimination | India | The traditional caste system as well as differences of ethnicity, religion, and language deeply divide society. (references) |
Nepal | Disability, Language, or Social Status The Constitution specifies that the Government shall not discriminate against citizens on grounds of religion, race, sex, caste, or ideology; however, there still is a de facto caste system. (references) | |
Economic History | India | The caste system reflects Indian occupational and religiously defined hierarchies. (references) |
India | Despite economic modernization and laws countering discrimination against the lower end of the class structure, the caste system remains an important source of social identification for most Hindus and a potent factor in the political life of the country. (references) | |
Minorities | India | The country's caste system has strong historic ties to Hinduism. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
caste system | 102 |
india caste system | 29 |
indian caste system | 28 |
the caste system in india | 21 |
hindu caste system | 19 |
indias caste system | 13 |
advantage caste system | 2 |
aryan caste system | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "caste system"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||
Finnish | kastilaitos, kastijako. (various references) | ||||
Pig Latin | astecay ystemsay | ||||
Misspellings | |
"Caste System" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: caste sytem. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-m-s-s-s-t-t-y" | |
-2 letters: cassettes. | |
-3 letters: casettes, cassette. | |
-4 letters: asceses, casette, ecstasy, ectases, estates, metates, sesames, sestets, stactes, systems, tassets, testacy, tsetses. | |
-5 letters: assets, castes, ceases, cesses, cestas, cyeses, essays, estate, eyases, masses, mateys, mattes, mayest, messes, metate, myases, sayest, scatts, scatty, sesame, sestet, stacte, stases, states, steams, steamy, sycees, system, tamest, tasses, tasset, tastes, teases, testae, testes. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-m-s-s-s-t-t-y" | |
+3 letters: systematicness. | |
+5 letters: systematicnesses. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 61 73 74 65 53 79 73 74 65 6D |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01100001 01110011 01110100 01100101 00100000 01010011 01111001 01110011 01110100 01100101 01101101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C a s t e   S y s t e m |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 0061 0073 0074 0065 0053 0079 0073 0074 0065 006D |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)37678586712539185867179 |
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