Tribe vs Caste - What's the difference?
tribe | caste |
A socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people.
(anthropology) A society larger than a band but smaller than a state.
The collective noun for various animals.
(taxonomy) A hierarchal rank between family and genus.
(stock breeding) A family of animals descended from some particular female progenitor, through the female line.
To distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.
* Archbishop Nicolson
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
As nouns the difference between tribe and caste
is that tribe is a socially, ethnically, and politically cohesive group of people while caste is any of the hereditary social classes and subclasses of south asian societies.As a verb tribe
is to distribute into tribes or classes; to categorize.tribe
English
(wikipedia tribe)Noun
(en noun)- the Duchess tribe of shorthorns
Derived terms
* tribal * tribeletSee also
* ethnic *Verb
(trib)- Our fowl, fish, and quadruped are well tribed .
Anagrams
* English collective nounscaste
English
Noun
(en noun)- The tinkers then formed an hereditary caste .