WordNet
n. a social structure in which classes are determined by heredity
Usage examples of "caste system".
And he said it was only to be a step toward abolishing the caste system altogether.
I had seen few women, but knew that they, when free, were promoted or demoted within the caste system according to the same standards and criteria as the men, although this varied, I was told, considerably from city to city.
The war had begun when the newly enfranchised and em- powered Invisibles had turned all their recently acquired weaponry on those who had been their betters in the old enforced caste system.
The Inner Sphere has its own militaristic societies, but none of them operates on a stratified caste system that places a child on a single-minded path to a warrior destiny, whether or not he or she chooses it.
The caste system is not inflexible and there are opportunities for altering caste, but men seldom avail themselves of them.
To be sure, in certain cities, as had been the case in Ko-ro-ba, women were permitted status within the caste system and had a relatively unrestricted existence.
Wimble stubbornly refused to acknowledge the caste system when it came to Delinks.