单词	plebeian
释义	plebeian1 adjectiveplebeian2 noun plebeianple‧be‧ian1 /plɪˈbiːən/ adjective Examples EXAMPLES FROM OTHER DICTIONARIES The food selection - hot dogs and beer - was rather plebeian. EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS But the Master, it must be said, is a man of plebeian tastes. From at least the closing years of the eighteenth century the decline of gentry involvement and even tolerance of plebeian sports was evident. He has also noted the importance of publicans as profit-minded promoters of plebeian events. Later, plebeian families imitated this ancient model and began to worship their ancestors as if they were gods. Nor were plebeian members mere foot-soldiers at the disposal of intelligenty party officials. There was nothing vulgar about these hands, not like his wife's plebeian paws with their chilblains and chipped red enamel. relating to ordinary people and what they like, rather than to people from a high social class – used to show disapproval:  a man with plebeian tastes plebeian1 adjectiveplebeian2 noun plebeianplebeian2 noun [countable] Word Origin WORD ORIGINplebeian2 Origin: 1500-1600 Latin plebeius, from plebs ‘common people’ Examples EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS As Godoy claimed, the Tumult of Aranjuez was the work of seduced plebeians, a revolution that seeped down from above. Both nobles and plebeians quench the thirst of their lust here. Both speakers are trying to establish their own power by appealing to the plebeians whose support they totally depend on. Presently he soon takes advantage of the simplicity of the plebeians. Shakespeare emphasizes how strongly the plebeians are in favour of Brutus when Antony begins to speak. The plebeians are a bit thick, as they didn't see through Caesar. These first few lines are very formal, perhaps too formal for the plebeians. word sets WORD SETS► Sociology abdicate, verbaffirmative action, nounage discrimination, nounageism, nounalienation, nounalmshouse, nounbackground, nounbeatnik, nounbeggar, nounbetterment, nounbirthrate, nounbohemian, adjectivebondage, nouncarer, nouncaretaker, nouncase work, nouncaste, nouncity planning, nouncommoner, nounconditioning, nounconsumer society, nounculture, noundisease, noundosser, noundoss house, noundown-and-out, noundownwardly mobile, adjectiveeuthanasia, nounformative, adjectivegenteel, adjectivegentlefolk, noungentleman, noungentlewoman, noungentry, noungeriatric, adjectivegerontology, noungrey, adjectivehermit, nounhierarchy, nounhippie, nounHonourable, adjectiveindependence, nounindustrialism, nouninequality, nouninfrastructure, nouninner city, nouninstitution, nouninstitutionalize, verbintegrate, verbliteracy, nounlower class, nounlow life, nounmatrix, nounmeritocracy, nounmobile, adjectivemores, nounmortality, nounNew Age traveller, nounorder, nounoutreach, nounpatriarchy, nounpecking order, nounpeer pressure, nounpetty bourgeois, adjectiveplebeian, nounpolitics, nounprogress, nounrank, nounreaction, nounrear, verbreceive, verbredneck, nounrevolution, nounsecularism, nounservice, nounsexual, adjectivesister, nounslave, nounslavery, nounsnowbird, nounsocial, adjectivesocial, nounsocialization, nounsocial science, nounsocial studies, nounsocial work, nounsocial worker, nounsociety, nounsocio-, prefixsocioeconomic, adjectivesoup kitchen, nounstratified, adjectivestratum, nounstreet people, nounsubgroup, nounsuburbanite, nounsuburbia, nounsupport group, nountownie, nountown meeting, nountown planning, nountownspeople, nountramp, noununattached, adjectiveuncle, noununconventional, adjectiveunderclass, nounupwardly mobile, adjectivewhite-collar, adjectiveworking class, noun 1an insulting word for someone who is from a low social class2an ordinary person who had no special rank in ancient Rome OPP  patrician
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