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वर्ण — meaning in English

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English meaning

  • caste noun One of the hereditary social classes found historically in South Asian societies and elsewhere.
  • group noun A number of people or things considered together because of some shared connection.
  • letter noun A written symbol representing a sound of a language, used to build words; one character of the alphabet.

Senses

वर्ण is used for these senses in English:

  • letter a symbol in an alphabet
  • caste hereditary social class
  • group subset of a culture or of a society

caste — full definition

  1. noun One of the hereditary social classes found historically in South Asian societies and elsewhere.
  2. noun Any rigid, hereditary social division that limits people to a fixed class.

group — full definition

  1. noun A number of people or things considered together because of some shared connection.
  2. noun A band of musicians who perform together.
  3. noun A commercial organization made up of several companies under one owner.
  4. verb To put people or things together so they form a set.

Related Hindi words