Crossword-Solution: PLEBEIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Plebeian | a. | Of or pertaining to the Roman plebs, or common people. |
| Plebeian | a. | Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as, plebeian sports; a plebeian throng. |
| Plebeian | n. | One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in distinction from patrician. |
| Plebeian | n. | One of the common people, or lower rank of men. |
We have 28 clues for the answer “PLEBEIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| of the lower social classes | 1 answer |
| name for the lower class of people in ancient rome | 1 answer |
| PERSON of lower classes | 1 answer |
| A member of the lower classes | 1 answer |
| Working-class people | 2 answers |
| Commoner, in ancient Rome | 2 answers |
| One of the common people | 2 answers |
| Of ordinary people | 2 answers |
| COMMON people (pert. to) | 2 answers |
| Common people of ancient Rome | 3 answers |
| ROMAN commoner | 3 answers |
| Lacking in refinement. | 3 answers |
| workday | 9 answers |
| workaday | 14 answers |
| unwashed | 17 answers |
| obeisant | 19 answers |
| baseborn | 20 answers |
| Servile | 27 answers |
| impressed | 37 answers |
| Commoner | 39 answers |
| Lowly | 40 answers |
| homely | 42 answers |
| prosaic | 58 answers |
| Commonplace | 68 answers |
| Unrefined | 73 answers |
| Vulgar | 81 answers |
| COMMON ___ | 92 answers |
| Simple | 106 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PLEBEIAN (5)
Deep ruffs, painfully wrought bands, and gorgeously embroidered gloves, were all deemed necessary to the official state of men assuming the reins of power, and were readily allowed to individuals dignified by rank or wealth, even while sumptuary laws forbade these and similar extravagances to the plebeian order.
The prescription I would offer, fair lady, is called by a very plebeian name: Work!” “Work?” Chauvelin looked at Marguerite long and scrutinisingly.
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
They were generally poverty-stricken; always plebeian and obscure; working with unsuccessful diligence at handicrafts; laboring on the wharves, or following the sea, as sailors before the mast; living here and there about the town, in hired tenements, and coming finally to the almshouse as the natural home of their old age.
But as we ascend the social scale, the process of discriminating and being discriminated by hearing increases in difficulty, partly because voices are assimilated, partly because the faculty of voice-discrimination is a plebeian virtue not much developed among the Aristocracy.
Quotes with PLEBEIAN (3)
Nor, perhaps, will it fail to be eventually perceived, that behind those forms and usages, as it were, he sometimes masked himself; incidentally making use of them for other and more private ends than they were legitimately intended to subserve. That certain sultanism of his brain, which had otherwise in a good degree remained unmanifested; through those forms that same sultanism became incarnate in an irresistible dictatorship. For be a man’s intellectual superiority what it…
She was one of those women of good family who no longer exist, elegant, distinguished, and haughty, whose pallor and thinness seem to say, 'I am conquered by the era, like all my breed. I am dying, but I despise you,' and - devil take me! - plebeian as I am, and though it is not very philosophical , I cannot help finding that beautiful.
The history of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggles. Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guildmaster and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, that each time ended, either in the revolutionary reconstitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Universal, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1999–2020).