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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.
2. Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as
plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Plebeian \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.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
plebeian
adj 1: of the common people of ancient Rome; "a plebeian
magistrate" [ant: {proletarian}, {patrician}]
2: 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}, {vulgar}, {unwashed}]
n : one of the common people [syn: {pleb}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
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.
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