[
US
/ˈbɹɑmɪn/
]
NOUN
- the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category
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a member of the highest of the four Hindu varnas
originally all brahmans were priests -
a member of a social and cultural elite (especially a descendant of an old New England family)
a Boston brahman
How To Use brahmin In A Sentence
- He collects antique Samurai swords, has owned a pet cobra and speaks with a high-flown Massachusetts Brahmin accent. The Artlessness Of Art Thieves
- Usually, auspicious times for Hindu weddings are ascertained by Brahmin priests who are paid to consult the stars.
- Indian Brahmins being appointed as priests of the famous Pashupatinath temple would draw public outrage, a 'pujari' at the holy shrine has warned. WN.com - Articles related to Hindus in ritual tongue-piercing in east India
- This sense of time disturbs the novel's protagonist, a young Brahmin landlord called Jagannatha. Hinduism Cast Against Modernity
- The mottled brown raptors I saw on the sixth are indeed immature Brahminy Kites.
- The walls of temples were carved with images of Portuguese visitors and Arab traders, of Brahmins honouring the Buddha and Buddhists worshipping Hindu deities.
- --- So it means the self proclaimed superior intelligence of the Tamil Brahmin is due to the Dravidian genes mixing with them. Why are South Indians so smart?
- Religious texts and law books are modified to describe cow eating as unclean, and beef as well as other meat begins to disappear from the menus for Brahmins and the upper classes.
- On one hand, he counters the Brahminical scholars who negate Marxism on ceratin issues and also by differing with the certain principles of Marxism in general and the mechanical interpretation of Marxism by Indian Marxists in particular. Archive 2009-02-01
- Perhaps, I am one of the few South Indian Brahmins who has had a conducted tour of so many gurdwaras from a celebrated Sikh historian and possibly a Sikh theologian.
