Brahmin

1. variant spelling of Brahman (sense 1).
2. a socially or culturally superior person, especially one from New England.

   he did not talk like the son of a New England Brahmin

   a verbal style filched from one of her Brahmin bosses

3. 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.

1. a member of the highest Hindu caste, originally that of the priesthood.

   a Brahman family

2. the ultimate reality underlying all phenomena in the Hindu scriptures.

   Brahman is formless but is the birthplace of all forms in visible reality

3. US spelling of Brahmin (sense 3).

from Sanskrit brāhmaṇa (Brahman (sense 1)), brahman (Brahman (sense 2)).