plebeian

plebeian
    adj 1: 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}, {plebeian}, {vulgar}, {unwashed}]
    n 1: one of the common people [syn: {plebeian}, {pleb}]
    

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.
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   2. Of or pertaining to the common people; vulgar; common; as,
      plebeian sports; a plebeian throng.
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Plebeian \Ple*be"ian\, n.
   1. One of the plebs, or common people of ancient Rome, in
      distinction from {patrician}.
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   2. One of the common people, or lower rank of men.
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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.
    

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. 
    

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