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SHUDRA
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Shudra mean?
• SHUDRA (noun)
The noun SHUDRA has 2 senses:
1. a member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste
2. the lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status
Familiarity information: SHUDRA used as a noun is rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Shudra; Sudra
Hypernyms ("Shudra" is a kind of...):
Hindoo; Hindu; Hindustani (a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India)
Holonyms ("Shudra" is a member of...):
shudra; sudra (the lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Synonyms:
shudra; sudra
Hypernyms ("shudra" is a kind of...):
varna ((Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis))
Meronyms (members of "shudra"):
Shudra; Sudra (a member of the lowest or worker Hindu caste)
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