'Plebeian' definitions:
Definition of 'plebeian'
(from WordNet)
adjective
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" [syn: common, plebeian, vulgar, unwashed]
noun
One of the common people [syn: plebeian, pleb]
Definition of 'Plebeian'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Plebeian'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'plebeian'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- average man,
- Babbittish,
- base,
- baseborn,
- below the salt,
- bourgeois,
- brutish,
- campy,
- coarse,
- Cockney,
- 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,
- low-camp,
- low-class,
- lowborn,
- lowbred,
- lowbrow,
- 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