| 单词 | brahmin |
| 释义 | brahmin (once / 48243 pages) n WORD FAMILY brahmin: brahminic, brahminical, brahmins+/brahminic: brahminically USAGE EXAMPLESThe sandblasted, sometimes off-kilter Southwesterner and the sardonic Boston brahmin have the chummy rapport of old friends, which they are. Wall Street Journal(Oct 07, 2016) The Iyer caste are brahmins, at the very top of the carefully graded hierarchy. The Guardian(May 19, 2015) Also, the king invited brahmin priests from other parts of India to live near the temple. BBC(Jul 07, 2011) 1n the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category Syn|Hyper brahman varna (Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis) 2n a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas Syn|Hypo|Hyper brahman smarta one of a group of brahmans who uphold nonsectarian orthodoxy according to the Vedanta school of Hinduism Hindoo, Hindu, Hindustani a native or inhabitant of Hindustan or India 3n a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family) Syn|Hyper brahman aristocrat, blue blood, patrician a member of the aristocracy Brahmin (once / 6096 pages) n WORD FAMILY Brahmin: Brahmins USAGE EXAMPLESFinally, sotto voce, with an apologetic wince or sheepish smile, anticipating the word’s being volleyed back in an affected Boston Brahmin accent: Harvard. New York Times(Dec 10, 2016) Phule went on to write searing Jacob Riis-like critiques of poverty and compared Brahmins to “slave masters” in the U.S. The New Yorker(Nov 01, 2016) Rao, a devout Brahmin, was accused of secretly abetting the mosque’s destruction. Economist(Sep 01, 2016) n any of several breeds of Indian cattle; especially a large American heat and tick resistant greyish humped breed evolved in the Gulf States by interbreeding Indian cattle and now used chiefly for crossbreeding Syn|Hypo|Hyper Bos indicus, Brahma, Brahman zebu domesticated ox having a humped back and long horns and a large dewlap; used chiefly as a draft animal in India and east Asia bovine any of various members of the genus Bos |
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