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Casten vs Caste - What's the difference?

casten | caste |

As a verb casten

is past participle of cast.

As a noun caste is

any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.

casten

English

Verb

(head)
  • (archaic, poetic)

    • Quotations

  • * 1748 , , L:LXXX:
    • With No?e up-turn'd, he always made a Shew
    As if he ?melt ?ome nau?eous Scent; his Eye
    Was cold, and keen, like Bla?t from boreal Snow;
    And Taunts he ca?ten forth mo?t bitterly.
    ----

    caste

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of South Asian societies.
  • A separate and fixed order or class of persons in society who chiefly associate with each other.
  • * Macaulay
    • The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste .

    Hyponyms

    * (hereditary class of India) Brahmin, Kshatriya, Shudra, Vaishya, varna

    Anagrams

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