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 

• SHUDRA (noun)

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)