Plebeian

Adjective

 * 1) Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
 * 2) Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as plebeian sports;
 * They were all from the ghetto, a plebeian throng.

Noun

 * 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.
 * 3) * 1748. David Hume.  Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973.  § 3.
 * 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.

Synonyms

 * commoner, pleb
 * commoner

Antonyms

 * patrician

Derived terms

 * pleb

Adverbs for Plebeian
altogether; distinctly; unexpectedly; surprisingly; naturally; inevitably; terribly; pathetically; loudly; roughly; meanly; vexatiously; indecorously; unendurably; singularly; strangely; oddly; overwhelmingly; hopelessly.

Thesaurus
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

Alternative forms

 * plebian

Etymology
plebeius:, from plebs:, plebis:

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 * Romanian:
 * Serbian: плебејац
 * Swedish: plebej