Plebeian Definition

plĭ-bēən
plebeians
adjective
Of or characteristic of the lower class in ancient Rome or of the common people in any country.
Webster's New World
Of, belonging to, or characteristic of commoners.
American Heritage
Vulgar, coarse, or common.
Webster's New World
Commonplace; ordinary.
Webster's New World
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noun
plebeians
A member of the ancient Roman lower class.
Webster's New World
One of the common people.
Webster's New World
A vulgar, coarse person.
Webster's New World
(archaic) One of the common people, or lower rank of men.
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Other Word Forms of Plebeian

Noun

Singular:
plebeian
Plural:
plebeians

Origin of Plebeian

  • From Latin plēbius from plēbs plēb- the common people pelə-1 in Indo-European roots

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Latin plebeius, from plebs, plebis (“the common people").

    From Wiktionary

Plebeian Sentence Examples

  • Such an immigrant, therefore, must have become at once a free plebeian citizen of Rome.

  • Incidentally this involved an extension of plebeian privilege in two directions.

  • But the Kabuki-za and its yakusha (actors) remained always a plebeian institution.

  • If so, there would be no place in Athens for those great plebeian houses, once patrician in some other commonwealth, out of which the later Roman nobilitas was so largely formed.

  • The nobles not only had privileges of rank and dignity, but substantial power over the plebeian or peasant class (macehualli).

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