About The Word Plebeian
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Plebeian
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What's The Definition Of Plebeian?
[n] one of the common people
[adj] of the common people of ancient Rome; "a plebeian magistrate" [adj] of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" Synonyms | Synonyms for Plebeian: common | lowborn | pleb | unwashed | vulgar Related Terms | Find terms related to Plebeian: average man | Babbittish | base | baseborn | below the salt | bourgeois | brutish | campy | coarse | Cockney | common | common man | commoner | commonplace | crass | Everyman | gauche | general | high-camp | homely | homespun | humble | ignoble | inferior | John Smith | kitschy | little fellow | little man | low | lowborn | lowbred | lowbrow | low-camp | low-class | lowly | mean | nonclerical | ordinary | Philistine | plain | pleb | pop | popular | proletarian | provincial | public | roturier | rude | rustic | shabby-genteel | third-estate | uncouth | undistinguished | ungenteel | unpolished | unrefined | unwashed | vernacular | vulgar | working-class See Also | common man | common people | common person | commoner | folk | lowbrow | middle-class | philistine Plebeian In Webster's Dictionary \Ple*be"ian\ (pl[-e]*b[=e]"yan), a. [L. plebeius, from
plebs, plebis, the common people: cf. F. pl['e]b['e]ien.]
1. Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
2. Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as,
plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.
\Ple*be"ian\, n. 1. One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician. 2. One of the common people, or lower rank of men. |
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