What's the difference between communal and plebeian?

Communal


Definition:

  • (a.) Pertaining to a commune.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Federal Penal Service rejected a request from Alyokhina and Tolokonnikova to serve their remaining time in Moscow; given the high profile nature of their case, they are afraid for their safety in the communal environment of a correctional colony.
  • (2) Communal riots are not unique to Gujarat, but the chief ministers of other states have not been blamed when pogroms have erupted on their watch.
  • (3) The increase in movement of people both within the highlands of New Guinea and also to and fro between holo- and hyperendemic lowland areas and the highlands by policemen and semi-skilled personnel in one direction and by labourers in the other, together with a great increase in potential breeding sites, were virtually inevitable consequences of the development process as the intense communalism and geographical isolation of the highland people was broken down.
  • (4) Diarrhoea can be prevented by improving communal sanitation and personal hygiene, and by giving breast as opposed to bottle feeding of infants.
  • (5) Nico Stevens from Help Refugees said at least 150 people had so far lost their shelters, but many of those had remained in the camp, sleeping in tents or communal buildings.
  • (6) Female mice will combine their litters into a communal nest.
  • (7) But the system still relies on a high degree of intrusiveness and communal pressure to achieve targets.
  • (8) Any place of mass communal touch is a potential magnet for spreading disease - such as children's playgrounds.
  • (9) During the process of differentiation and forming of the department and later the Institute of General and Communal Hygiene was the hospital hygiene an essential task of research work.
  • (10) The study confirms that a communal orientation enhances satisfaction with a best friendship and that conflict and negativity detract from it.
  • (11) In this study the views of a group of communal farmers to tick control are described and the impact of these views upon adoption of other strategies is discussed.
  • (12) At a press conference in Delhi, a BJP spokesperson, Nirmala Sitharaman, said: "The violence in Assam is completely communal … it is a problem of illegal migrants."
  • (13) Peaks of pollution not associated with rainfall episodes could have resulted from the practice of communal laundering in the near vicinity of the wells.
  • (14) It would mark the first occasion that a chemical borrowed from the world of medicine became a legal, communal, publicly available form of stress relief.
  • (15) Through the searing summer heat, the Mexican immigrant to California’s Central Valley and his family endured a daily routine of collecting water in his pickup truck from an emergency communal tank, washing from buckets and struggling to keep their withering orchard alive while they waited for snow to return to the mountains and begin the cycle of replenishing the aquifer that provides water to almost all the homes in the region.
  • (16) She excitedly described how all the women were singing and clapping as they waited together in a communal cell.
  • (17) The established irregularities of family and communal feeding can be one of the causes of appearance of the diseases due to deficient or surplus nutrition in pupils of Subotica.
  • (18) "In 2010, Warrap was hit harder than most by internal communal violence," Barrie Walkley, the US Consul-General in Southern Sudan, told IRIN at the inauguration.
  • (19) They say its haram [sinful] because of the content of the films and people being there communally.
  • (20) Back in Duran Duran's heyday, the only communal fan experiences were concerts, playground discussions or sporadic missives from distant pen pals.

Plebeian


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.
  • (n.) One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.
  • (n.) One of the common people, or lower rank of men.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The whole phenomenon could be summed up in the familiar phrase, coined by the Romans used to describe their strategy for placating the plebeians – "bread and circuses".
  • (2) Just as Demirtaş is the current darling of the western ambassadors, so Erdoğan was a decade ago; the ambassadors took it upon themselves to smooth his plebeian edges and refine his worldview.
  • (3) In his last Russian novel, The Gift , he devoted 50 pages to belittling and mocking the writer and his circle, but admitted that there “was quite definitively a smack of class arrogance about the attitudes of contemporary well-born writers towards the plebeian Chernyshevsky” and, in private, that “Tolstoy and Turgenev called him the ‘bed-bug stinking gentleman’ … and jeered at him in all kinds of ways”.
  • (4) Again in Port Harcourt, I saw a convoy with sirens blaring driving down the wrong side of the road to avoid waiting like the rest of us normal, plebeian people.
  • (5) Perhaps he made his exit via the constituency’s Durham Tees Valley airport, barked through security with his shoes and belt in a grey plastic tray, the fate to which his foreign policy adventures have condemned us plebeian travellers.
  • (6) In other ways, Wonga is just a soft target, put in the stocks for angry plebeians to throw rotten fruit at.
  • (7) So it has been with the distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and plebeians; and so it will be, and in part already is, with the aristocracies of colour, race, and sex."