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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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
Dictionary Results for plebeian:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
plebeian
    adj 1: 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]
    n 1: one of the common people [syn: plebeian, pleb]

2. 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.
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   2. One of the common people, or lower rank of men.
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3. 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.
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4. Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
PLEBEIAN. One who is classed among the common people, as distinguished from 
the nobles. Happily in this country the order of nobles does not exist. 



5. 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.


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