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plebeian
One of the common people, or lower rank of men

The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.

plebeian
Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as plebeian sports

They were all from the ghetto, a plebeian throng.

plebeian
One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician
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common
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{n} one of the common people
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{a} vulgar, common, low, mean
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Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people
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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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of the common people of ancient Rome; "a plebeian magistrate
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disapproval If someone describes something as plebeian, they think that it is unsophisticated and connected with or typical of people from a low social class. a philosophy professor with a cockney accent and an alarmingly plebeian manner = common genteel. relating to ordinary people and what they like, rather than to people from a high social class - used to show disapproval. (Latin, plebs) Member of the general citizenry, as opposed to the patrician class, in the ancient Roman republic. Plebeians were originally excluded from the Senate and from all public offices except military tribune, and they were forbidden to marry patricians. Seeking to acquire equal rights, they carried on a campaign called Conflict of the Orders, developing a separate political organization and seceding in protest from the state at least five times. The campaign ceased when a plebeian dictator (appointed 287 BC) made measures passed in the plebeian assembly binding on the whole community
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A person, especially one from an earlier period of history, who is plebeian, comes from a low social class
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{i} pleb, common man, member of the lower class; member of the common class (in ancient Rome)
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of the common people of ancient Rome; "a plebeian magistrate"
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Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng
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{s} common, lower class; coarse, unrefined, rude
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