English to afrikaans meaning of

plebeian

Die woordeboekbetekenis van die woord "plebejs" is:(byvoeglike naamwoord)van of behoort aan die gewone mensewat ontbreek in verfyning of hoë status; vulgêr(selfstandige naamwoord)'n lid van die gewone mense, in teenstelling met die aristokrasie of die rykes'n persoon wat gebrek aan kultuur of verfyning; 'n vulgêre of gewone persoon

Synonyms

  1. pleb

Sentence Examples

  1. He was dressed in a common gray blouse and velvet cap, but his carefully arranged hair, beard and moustache, all of the richest and glossiest black, ill accorded with his plebeian attire.
  2. Of plebeian lineages I have nothing to say, save that they merely serve to swell the number of those that live, without any eminence to entitle them to any fame or praise beyond this.
  3. More than once she thought of revealing all to her grandmother, and she would not have hesitated a moment, if Maximilian Morrel had been named Albert de Morcerf or Raoul de Château-Renaud but Morrel was of plebeian extraction, and Valentine knew how the haughty Marquise de Saint-Méran despised all who were not noble.
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