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plebs

/plebz/US // plɛbz //UK // (plɛbz) //

庶民,民众,庶族人,庶族

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the common people, as contrasted with the patricians and later with the senatorial nobility or the equestrian order.
    • : the common people; the populace.

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Examples

  • Meanwhile the daily tabloid Sun claimed that his chief whip, Andrew Mitchell, had called police officers guarding No. 10 “plebs.”

  • The plebs grows threatening by reason of its numbers and the force that numbers carry with them.

  • The only other central authority in the state was the king's council or court (eod, witan, plebs, concilium).

  • To them exclusively the name of populus applied, as that of plebs was given to the plebeians.

  • He falls upon the plebs of the open fields, and his bands put everything to fire and to the sword.

  • For this the Romans thirsted—patricians and plebs alike, rich and poor, man, woman and child.