Word | Noun | Adjective | Verb | Adverb |
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purdah | Yes | No | No | No |
segregation | Yes | No | No | No |
purdah (noun) | segregation (noun) |
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a screen used in India to separate women from men or strangers | the act of segregating or sequestering |
the traditional Hindu or Muslim system of keeping women secluded | a social system that provides separate facilities for minority groups |
a state of social isolation | (genetics) the separation of paired alleles during meiosis so that members of each pair of alleles appear in different gametes |