Brahmin
noun
[ ˈbrɑːmɪn ]
• variant spelling of Brahman (sense 1).
• a socially or culturally superior person, especially one from New England.
• "he did not talk like the son of a New England Brahmin"
• an ox of a humped breed originally domesticated in India, which is tolerant of heat and drought and is now kept widely in tropical and warm-temperate countries.
Brahman
noun
• a member of the highest Hindu caste, originally that of the priesthood.
• "a Brahman family"
• the ultimate reality underlying all phenomena in the Hindu scriptures.
• "Brahman is formless but is the birthplace of all forms in visible reality"
• US spelling of Brahmin (sense 3).
Origin:
from Sanskrit brāhmaṇa (Brahman (sense 1)), brahman (Brahman (sense 2)).
