casta — meaning in English

English meaning

• breed verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
• caste noun One of the hereditary social classes found historically in South Asian societies and elsewhere.
• kind noun A type or category of thing that shares common features with others.

Senses

casta is used for these senses in English:

• breed A race or lineage; offspring or issue.
• caste Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies or similar found historically in other cultures.
• kind (type theory) The type of a type constructor or a higher-order type operator.

breed — full definition

1. verb To produce offspring, especially of animals reproducing.
2. verb To keep and mate animals deliberately, aiming to produce specific traits in their offspring.
3. verb To cause or lead to something, especially something negative, over time.
4. noun A particular type of animal (or occasionally plant) within a species, produced through selective mating.

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.

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