Meaning of PLEBEIAN
| Pronunciation: | | plu'beeun
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- [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"
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| | Synonyms: | | common, lowborn, pleb, unwashed, vulgar |
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| | Antonyms: | | patrician, proletarian, propertyless | | |
| | See Also: | | common man, common people, common person, commoner, folk, lowbrow, middle-class, philistine | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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\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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| | Related Terms: | | 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 |
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