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: a member of the Roman plebs
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: one of the common people
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That is because the Roman Forum began as a market and became the place where patricians would meet plebeians and press the flesh.
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Which is, 99 percent of us plebeians need to pick a new hobby.
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Rome had experienced plenty of internal conflict between patricians and plebeians since its founding, but none rose to the level of war until 88 BCE.
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Origin and Etymology of plebeian
Latin plebeius of the common people, from plebs common people
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Examples of plebeian in a Sentence
wondered what the people at the country club would think of his plebeian origins
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Penn food hall The University of Pennsylvania’s former Moravian Food Court at 3401 Walnut St. — known for plebeian choices such as Taco Bell, Pizza Hut, and A&W — soars higher on the food chain with Franklin’s Table Food Hall.
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The Tungsten is distinguished from the more plebeian Ram Limited by a segment-first suede headliner, exclusive white-and-indigo leather not unlike that in the Jeep Grand Cherokee Summit, real wood trim, and body-color exterior components.
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The boy who said that the emperor had no clothes was not an élitist insulting the plebeian parade spectators.
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Its newest products are savings accounts and consumer loans, plebeian products that Goldman would never have deigned to offer before the crisis.
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I got preoccupied feeding my dog (so plebeian!) and promptly forgot, a mistake that came back to haunt me during my subsequent photo op.
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Test Results: Maximum Cornering Capability Braking For all of its dynamic superiority versus more plebeian crossovers, the Jaguar’s brake pedal delivers a disappointing initial squish when pressed.
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Once, the Hanks family was taking a tour of the place like any plebeian could, and Hanks's wife, Rita Wilson, ran into George W. Bush while he was headed to the gym.
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First Known Use of plebeian
1566
plebeian Synonyms
Synonyms
baseborn, common, humble, ignoble, inferior, low, low-life, lowborn, lower-class, lowly, mean, proletarian, vulgar;
Antonyms
aristocratic, blue-blooded, genteel, gentle, grand, great, high, highborn, highbred, lofty, noble, patrician, upper-class, upper-crust, wellborn;
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