What's the difference between pedestrian and plebeian?

Pedestrian


Definition:

  • (a.) Going on foot; performed on foot; as, a pedestrian journey.
  • (n.) A walker; one who journeys on foot; a foot traveler; specif., a professional walker or runner.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The lack of pedestrian crossing devices, crosswalks, or sidewalks, however, was not associated with an increased risk.
  • (2) Extraperitoneal hemorrhage, associated with a fracture of the pelvis, is a major cause of death in pedestrian accidents.
  • (3) Pedestrian fatality rates are highest for boys and for children in the youngest age groups.
  • (4) A hundred fatalities is 100 too many, but that total is a 10% decrease on the previous five-year average and is a quarter of pedestrian and a third of motorcycle fatality numbers for the same period.
  • (5) If you stand on the main pedestrian drag, Ferhadija, and look east, you could be in Istanbul or Cairo.
  • (6) Sporadic and pedestrian studies cannot explain why a necessary and sufficient relationship should exist between the presence of a cleft and the dependent measures used.
  • (7) We studied all traffic accidents to pedestrians under age 15 which occurred on the Island of Montreal during an eighteen months period.
  • (8) Scores of sopping-wet pedestrians have complained to police after being splashed when motorists drove through puddles, figures show.
  • (9) The most common causes of injury were motorcycle accidents (56.3%) and street accidents with pedestrian injury (29.47%).
  • (10) There has also been an emphasis since 2008 for elevated pedestrian walkways, or “skywalks”.
  • (11) Risks include terrorist bombings, riots and stampedes in the tunnels and pedestrian walkways leading to the Jamarat stoning pillars (representing Satan) – as well as the routine hazards of heat and disease.
  • (12) Cyclists are just fast-moving pedestrians; so all attempts at mating them with cars or other forms of transport will fail.
  • (13) Miliband's pedestrian, drooping delivery did no justice to the ambition of his argument, leaving the packed conference hall sometimes flat.
  • (14) "After several refusals Mr Mitchell got off his bike and walked to the pedestrian gate with me after I again offered to open that for him," a male colleague of the officer wrote.
  • (15) We conclude that pedestrian victims are commonly intoxicated and that chest and spine injuries are more common in this population.
  • (16) Of these, 213 were Hartford residents resulting in an annual age-specific pedestrian collision rate of 22.8 per 10,000 persons.
  • (17) We have to acknowledge that it's extremely hard to build a regular city from scratch.” Furthermore, some experts say that certified green buildings and pedestrian-friendly roads are a worthless patch for China’s environmental woes, not a solution.
  • (18) Good design improves the behaviour of cyclists If you want to see improved behaviour among cyclists, just build best-practice infrastructure for them – separate bikes from pedestrians and cars and give them their own space in the urban landscape.
  • (19) The mayor championed some of his early successes, including the implementation of the Vision Zero pedestrian safety plan – although there have been questions after jaywalkers were targeted last month – and reminding the audience that his administration had recently settled in the Floyd v City of New York case, allowing major reforms to the controversial policy to move forward.
  • (20) Pedestrian injuries occurred in 81 of the 142 census tracts in the city.

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."