VAISYA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Vaisya mean? 

• VAISYA (noun)
  The noun VAISYA has 2 senses:

1. a member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes

2. the third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category

  Familiarity information: VAISYA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• VAISYA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("Vaisya" is a kind of...):

Hindoo; Hindu; Hindustani (a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India)

Holonyms ("Vaisya" is a member of...):

vaisya (the third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category

Classified under:

Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects

Hypernyms ("vaisya" 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 "vaisya"):

Vaisya (a member of the mercantile and professional Hindu caste; the third of the four main castes)