stratum vs caste

caste vs stratum

stratum and caste both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
stratum	Yes	No	No	No
caste	Yes	No	No	No

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

stratum: 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 stratum 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.

stratum (noun)	caste (noun)
an abstract place usually conceived as having depth	in some social insects (such as ants) a physically distinct individual or group of individuals specialized to perform certain functions in the colony
a subpopulation divided into a stratified sampling	a social class separated from others by distinctions of hereditary rank or profession or wealth
people having the same social, economic, or educational status	(Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity
one of several parallel layers of material arranged one on top of another (such as a layer of tissue or cells in an organism or a layer of sedimentary rock)	social status or position conferred by a system based on class

Difference between stratum and caste

Words related to "caste"

© WordCmp.com 2024, CC-BY 4.0 / CC-BY-SA 3.0.