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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."

Roturier


Definition:

  • (n.) A person who is not of noble birth; specif., a freeman who during the prevalence of feudalism held allodial land.

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