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VARNA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(Hinduism) the name for the original social division of Vedic people into four groups (which are subdivided into thousands of jatis)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting groupings of people or objects
Hypernyms ("varna" is a kind of...):
group; grouping (any number of entities (members) considered as a unit)
Meronyms (members of "varna"):
jati ((Hinduism) a Hindu caste or distinctive social group of which there are thousands throughout India; a special characteristic is often the exclusive occupation of its male members (such as barber or potter))
Domain category:
Hindooism; Hinduism (a body of religious and philosophical beliefs and cultural practices native to India and based on a caste system; it is characterized by a belief in reincarnation, by a belief in a supreme being of many forms and natures, by the view that opposing theories are aspects of one eternal truth, and by a desire for liberation from earthly evils)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "varna"):
brahman; brahmin (the highest of the four varnas: the priestly or sacerdotal category)
rajanya (the second highest of the four varnas: the noble or warrior category)
vaisya (the third of the four varnas: the commoners or yeoman farmers or mercantile and professional category)
shudra; sudra (the lowest of the four varnas: the servants and workers of low status)
Sense 2
Meaning:
A port city in northeastern Bulgaria on the Black Sea
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
city; metropolis; urban center (a large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts)
port (a place (seaport or airport) where people and merchandise can enter or leave a country)
Holonyms ("Varna" is a part of...):
Bulgaria; Republic of Bulgaria (a republic in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula in southeastern Europe)
Context examples:
He was brought from the castle by Szgany, and probably they delivered their cargo to Slovaks who took the boxes to Varna, for there they were shipped for London.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
She is the Czarina Catherine, and she sail from Doolittle's Wharf for Varna, and thence on to other parts and up the Danube.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
It will take her at the quickest speed she has ever made at least three weeks to reach Varna; but we can travel overland to the same place in three days.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
They had, mind ye, taken the box on the deck ready to fling in, and as it was marked Galatz via Varna, I thocht I'd let it lie till we discharged in the port an' get rid o't althegither.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The forces were distributed much as they had been at Varna, except that Lord Godalming went to the Vice-Consul, as his rank might serve as an immediate guarantee of some sort to the official, we being in extreme hurry.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
When he ask if there be any wrong, for that so, he can telegraph and have inquiry made at Varna, we say 'no'; for what is to be done is not for police or of the customs.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The box we seek is to be landed in Varna, and to be given to an agent, one Ristics who will there present his credentials; and so our merchant friend will have done his part.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
As to the first, he evidently intended to arrive at Galatz, and sent invoice to Varna to deceive us lest we should ascertain his means of exit from England; his immediate and sole purpose then was to escape.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
The Professor stood up:—He has so used your mind; and by it he has left us here in Varna, whilst the ship that carried him rushed through enveloping fog up to Galatz, where, doubtless, he had made preparation for escaping from us.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
One of the letters was directed to Samuel F. Billington, No. 7, The Crescent, Whitby, another to Herr Leutner, Varna; the third was to Coutts & Co., London, and the fourth to Herren Klopstock & Billreuth, bankers, Buda-Pesth.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
