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Prestige vs Caste - What's the difference?

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Prestige is a related term of caste.


As nouns the difference between prestige and caste

is that prestige is while caste is any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of south asian societies.

prestige

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(-)
  • (obsolete) Delusion; illusion; trick.
  • * :
    • The sophisms of infidelity, and the prestiges of imposture.
  • The quality of how good the reputation of something or someone is, how favourably something or someone is regarded.
    • Oxford has a university of very high prestige .

    Derived terms

    * covert prestige * overt prestige * prestigious

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    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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