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pleb

[ pleb ]

noun

  1. a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.


pleb

/ plɛb /

noun

  1. short for plebeian
  2. informal.
    a common vulgar person


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Word History and Origins

Origin of pleb1

1850–55, Americanism; short for plebeian

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Example Sentences

There is no disguising the fact that Schubert, prince of musicians, was personally a hopeless little pleb.

Max recalled the day of his début at West Point, a humble, modest "Pleb."

Little did the pleb dream that he was up against a man of brains.

And I, unhappy, love with pure desire Sicinius, a soldier and a pleb!

Methinks He fears this pleb as he once feared Sicinius.Appius (haughtily).

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