Search Result for "plebeian":
Wordnet 3.0
NOUN (1)
1. one of the common people;
[syn: plebeian, pleb]
ADJECTIVE (1)
1. of or associated with the great masses of people;
- Example: "the common people in those days suffered greatly"
- Example: "behavior that branded him as common"
- Example: "his square plebeian nose"
- Example: "a vulgar and objectionable person"
- Example: "the unwashed masses"
[syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Plebeian \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. [1913 Webster] 2. Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng. [1913 Webster]The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Plebeian \Ple*be"ian\, n. 1. One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician. [1913 Webster] 2. One of the common people, or lower rank of men. [1913 Webster]The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
61 Moby Thesaurus words for "plebeian": Babbittish, Cockney, Everyman, John Smith, Philistine, average man, base, baseborn, below the salt, bourgeois, brutish, campy, coarse, cockney, common, common man, commoner, commonplace, crass, gauche, general, high-camp, homely, homespun, humble, ignoble, inferior, kitschy, little fellow, little man, low, low-camp, low-class, lowborn, lowbred, lowbrow, lowly, mean, nonclerical, ordinary, plain, pleb, pop, popular, proletarian, provincial, public, roturier, rude, rustic, shabby-genteel, third-estate, uncouth, undistinguished, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined, unwashed, vernacular, vulgar, working-class
