Meanings of plebian in English

Dominey was more than ever the aristocrat; Seaman the plebian schemer, unabashed and desperately in earnest.

You either disappear into a plebian background or move forward to where most others fear to follow.

You make everything so commonplace, so plebian.

Oh, please do not tell me that Marcellus's friend is wrong and she really is a plebian, Juba!

The aristo looked quizzical at my plebian presence, but she gave him his orders with her usual forcefulness.

It is a decidedly plebian event that displays and celebrates some of the worst cars of all time.

The cow had a strain of distinctly plebian blood which, transmitted to her calf, probably accounted for their eccentricities.

Indeed, thought Medora, he made other young men in nearby boxes-youngmen of "means" and "position"-lookalmost plebian.

The singers, the audience, the musicians, the popular tradition of plebian opera loving, have all been there for a long time.

Steve obeyed the signal and ordered a further supply of the beer for which Mr. Keggs had a plebian and unbutlerlike fondness.

Having lots of money was a novelty and flaunting this novelty to patrician and plebian, proletariat and CEO alike still engrossed him.

She was a large, sleek, gray-and-white cat, with an enormous dignity which was not at all impaired by any consciousness of her plebian origin.

These Royalists disapproved, on moral grounds, of his forced marriage; besides, he was named Vinet, and how could they be expected to protect a plebian?

And the other priests, the Plebian here-doyou know their worldly and base souls?

If the words be discordant to the station of the speaker, the Roman knights and plebians will raise an immoderate laugh.

The poor cure's worst misgivings were realized: the rising generation of the plebians had played the mischief with the haughty old noble.