Definitions for plebs

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Spelling: [plebz]
IPA: /plɛbz/

Plebs is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 57 anagrams from letters in plebs (belps).

Definitions for plebs

noun

  1. (in ancient Rome) the common people, as contrasted with the patricians and later with the senatorial nobility or the equestrian order.
  2. the common people; the populace.
  3. a member of the plebs; a plebeian or commoner.
  4. plebe (def 1).

Origin of plebs

First recorded in 1640-50, plebs is from the Latin word plēbs, plēbēs

Examples for plebs

And we still have an excellent array of the plebs of the stage.

These people, the plebs as they were called, were despised by many patricians.

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

Only in theory can the mass of the plebs have been clients at any time.

Not the theatre of plebs, the proletariat, but the theatre of A People.

But the plebs of later days is not to be explained on one hypothesis only.

This is called the First Secession of the plebs, and is said to have been in 494.

The masses are "plebs," "vile multitude," "canaille," "people."

Publius Servilius Casca was by his grace tribune of the plebs.

And the enthusiasm was not confined to the blood of the plebs.

Word Value for plebs
Scrable

9

Words with friends

12

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