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JATI
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India; a special characteristic is often the exclusive occupation of its male members (such as barber or potter)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("jati" is a kind of...):
caste ((Hinduism) a hereditary social class among Hindus; stratified according to ritual purity)
Domain category:
Hindooism; Hinduism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)
Holonyms ("jati" is a member of...):
varna ((Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis))
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