social class vs caste

caste vs social class

social class and caste both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
social class	Yes	No	No	No
caste	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, caste is a hyponym of social class; that is, caste is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than social class:

social class: people having the same social, economic, or educational status
caste: a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth

Other hyponyms of social class include domain, world, age class, agriculture, brotherhood, fraternity, sodality, estate, estate of the realm, the three estates, labor, labour, proletariat, working class, lower class, underclass, bourgeoisie, middle class, booboisie, commonality, commonalty, commons, peasantry, demimonde, underworld, yeomanry, upper class, upper crust, ninja, firing line, immigrant class, center, centre, old school, market, craft, trade, fair sex, woman, womanhood, patriciate.

social class (noun)	caste (noun)
people having the same social, economic, or educational status	in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony
	a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
	(Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity
	social status or position conferred by a system based on class

Difference between social class and caste

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