Feminine
plebe
Meaning
- (Ancient-Rome, feminine, historical) plebs (plebeian class)
- (feminine, literary) plebs, commoners, common people (as opposed to nobility)
- (dated, derogatory, feminine) mob, rabble, riffraff
- (feminine, figuratively, poetic) multitude, mass (of people)
- (feminine, figuratively, poetic, rare) multitude, mass (of plants)
Concepts
common people
ragtag and bobtail
the great unwashed
Opposite of
patriziato, aristocrazia, nobiltà
Translations
Frequency
Hyphenated as
plè‧be
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈplɛ.be/
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin plēbem. Compare the inherited doublet pieve.
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