PLEBEIAN. One who is classed among the common people, as distinguished from the nobles. Happily in this country the order of nobles does not exist.

Source: Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856)
 

PLEBEIAN, n. An ancient Roman who in the blood of his country stained nothing but his hands. Distinguished from the Patrician, who was a saturated solution.

Source: THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993)
 

Plebeian \Ple*be"ian\ (pl[-e]*b[=e]"yan), a. [L. plebeius, from plebs, plebis, the common people: cf. F. pl['e]b['e]ien.]

1. Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people. [1913 Webster]

2. Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

Plebeian \Ple*be"ian\, n.

1. One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician. [1913 Webster]

2. One of the common people, or lower rank of men. [1913 Webster]

Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
 

61 Moby Thesaurus words for "plebeian": Babbittish, Cockney, Everyman, John Smith, Philistine, average man, base, baseborn, below the salt, bourgeois, brutish, campy, coarse, cockney, common, common man, commoner, commonplace, crass, gauche, general, high-camp, homely, homespun, humble, ignoble, inferior, kitschy, little fellow, little man, low, low-camp, low-class, lowborn, lowbred, lowbrow, lowly, mean, nonclerical, ordinary, plain, pleb, pop, popular, proletarian, provincial, public, roturier, rude, rustic, shabby-genteel, third-estate, uncouth, undistinguished, ungenteel, unpolished, unrefined, unwashed, vernacular, vulgar, working-class

Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
 

plebeian adj
1: of the common people of ancient Rome; "a plebeian magistrate" [ant: proletarian, patrician]
2: of or associated with the great masses of people; "the common people in those days suffered greatly"; "behavior that branded him as common"; "his square plebeian nose"; "a vulgar and objectionable person"; "the unwashed masses" [syn: common, vulgar, unwashed]

noun

one of the common people [syn: pleb]

Source: WordNet (r) 2.0
 

Plebeian \Ple*be"ian\ (pl[-e]*b[=e]"yan), a. [L. plebeius, from plebs, plebis, the common people: cf. F. pl['e]b['e]ien.]

1. Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people.

2. Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Plebeian \Ple*be"ian\, n.

1. One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician.

2. One of the common people, or lower rank of men.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)