See pleb in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "toff"
},
{
"word": "posho"
}
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*pleh₁-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plebeian",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "clipping of plebeian",
"name": "clipping"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "back-formation",
"name": "back-form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "plebs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "pleb (plural plebs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "plebe"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "plebeian"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "plebs"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "30 19 26 9 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English back-formations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 20 26 11 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 22 26 16 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "28 22 25 16 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 24 23 19 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 23 22 19 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 27 18 24 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 21 19 25 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 25 19 23 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 26 20 25 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 25 20 20 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "1 30 39 0 31",
"kind": "topical",
"langcode": "en",
"name": "People",
"orig": "en:People",
"parents": [
"Human",
"All topics",
"Fundamental"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society."
],
"id": "en-pleb-en-noun-WZMVhc6S",
"links": [
[
"commoner",
"commoner"
],
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"lower class",
"lower class"
],
[
"society",
"society"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "29 20 26 11 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 22 26 16 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "28 22 25 16 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 24 23 19 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 21 19 27 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Armenian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 23 22 19 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 27 18 24 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 21 18 27 19",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Persian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 21 19 25 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 25 19 23 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 26 20 25 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "15 21 19 27 17",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Thai translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 25 20 20 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1795, John O'Keeffe, Life's Vagaries, act V, scene ii, line 85:",
"text": "You're under my roof, you pleb.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person."
],
"id": "en-pleb-en-noun-5qeCEuq1",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"common",
"common"
],
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"unsophisticated",
"unsophisticated"
],
[
"cultureless",
"cultureless"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory"
],
"translations": [
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "plebey",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "պլեբեյ"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ṙamik",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "ռամիկ"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "rahvas"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "prole"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Prolet"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "'âmmi",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "عامی"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ralé"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gentalha"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plebe"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zé"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "býdlo",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бы́дло"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mandado"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "plebeyo"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "prâi",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "ไพร่"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prostóljud",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"collective",
"masculine"
],
"word": "просто́люд"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prostoljúddja",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"collective",
"neuter"
],
"word": "простолю́ддя"
},
{
"_dis1": "5 88 6",
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prostóljúdyn",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"rare"
],
"word": "просто́лю́дин"
}
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"kind": "other",
"name": "American English",
"parents": [],
"source": "w"
},
{
"_dis": "30 19 26 9 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English back-formations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 20 26 11 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 24 23 19 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 23 22 19 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 27 18 24 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 21 19 25 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 25 19 23 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 25 20 20 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1838, Caroline H. Gilman, The Poetry of Travelling in the United States..., page 76:",
"text": "I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1922, Dialect Notes, number 5, American Dialect Society, page 189:",
"text": "At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A freshman cadet at a military academy."
],
"id": "en-pleb-en-noun--FBP0hmP",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"freshman",
"freshman"
],
[
"cadet",
"cadet"
],
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"academy",
"academy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, slang, usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"derogatory",
"slang",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/plɛb/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-pleb.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/En-au-pleb.ogg/En-au-pleb.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/En-au-pleb.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛb"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "prole"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "plebe"
},
{
"_dis1": "0 0 0",
"word": "plebeian"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lower social class"
],
"word": "pleb"
}
{
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*pleh₁-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plebeian",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "clipping of plebeian",
"name": "clipping"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "back-formation",
"name": "back-form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "pleb (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "30 19 26 9 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English back-formations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 20 26 11 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 22 26 16 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "28 22 25 16 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 24 23 19 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 23 22 19 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 27 18 24 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 21 19 25 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 25 19 23 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 26 20 25 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 25 20 20 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Of or concerning the lower class of a society."
],
"id": "en-pleb-en-adj-lGSh8DvI",
"links": [
[
"concerning",
"concerning"
],
[
"lower class",
"lower class"
],
[
"society",
"society"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
{
"_dis": "30 19 26 9 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English back-formations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 20 26 11 14",
"kind": "other",
"name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
"parents": [
"Entries with incorrect language header",
"Entry maintenance"
],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "29 22 26 16 6",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Entries with translation boxes",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "28 22 25 16 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with 1 entry",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "24 24 23 19 10",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Pages with entries",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 23 22 19 16",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "18 27 18 24 13",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with German translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 21 19 25 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Portuguese translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 25 19 23 12",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Russian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "20 26 20 25 9",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Spanish translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
},
{
"_dis": "17 25 20 20 18",
"kind": "other",
"name": "Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"parents": [],
"source": "w+disamb"
}
],
"glosses": [
"Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse."
],
"id": "en-pleb-en-adj-poFXJEj6",
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"Undistinguished",
"undistinguished"
],
[
"commonplace",
"commonplace"
],
[
"unsophisticated",
"unsophisticated"
],
[
"vulgar",
"vulgar"
],
[
"coarse",
"coarse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/plɛb/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-pleb.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/En-au-pleb.ogg/En-au-pleb.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/En-au-pleb.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛb"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lower social class"
],
"word": "pleb"
}
{
"antonyms": [
{
"word": "toff"
},
{
"word": "posho"
}
],
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English back-formations",
"English clippings",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleh₁-",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛb",
"Rhymes:English/ɛb/1 syllable",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*pleh₁-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plebeian",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "clipping of plebeian",
"name": "clipping"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "back-formation",
"name": "back-form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.",
"forms": [
{
"form": "plebs",
"tags": [
"plural"
]
}
],
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {},
"expansion": "pleb (plural plebs)",
"name": "en-noun"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "noun",
"related": [
{
"word": "plebe"
},
{
"word": "plebeian"
},
{
"word": "plebs"
}
],
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"A commoner; a member of the lower class of a society."
],
"links": [
[
"commoner",
"commoner"
],
[
"member",
"member"
],
[
"lower class",
"lower class"
],
[
"society",
"society"
]
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English derogatory terms",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1795, John O'Keeffe, Life's Vagaries, act V, scene ii, line 85:",
"text": "You're under my roof, you pleb.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"common",
"common"
],
[
"person",
"person"
],
[
"unsophisticated",
"unsophisticated"
],
[
"cultureless",
"cultureless"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) A common person; an unsophisticated or cultureless person."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"American English",
"English derogatory terms",
"English slang",
"English terms with quotations",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "1838, Caroline H. Gilman, The Poetry of Travelling in the United States..., page 76:",
"text": "I found some of the novices, plebs they are called, home-sick, and weary with their discipline.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1922, Dialect Notes, number 5, American Dialect Society, page 189:",
"text": "At Annapolis, the natives are crabs, the freshmen plebs, the sophomores youngsters.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"A freshman cadet at a military academy."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"freshman",
"freshman"
],
[
"cadet",
"cadet"
],
[
"military",
"military"
],
[
"academy",
"academy"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(US, slang, usually derogatory) A freshman cadet at a military academy."
],
"tags": [
"US",
"derogatory",
"slang",
"usually"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/plɛb/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-pleb.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/En-au-pleb.ogg/En-au-pleb.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/En-au-pleb.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛb"
}
],
"synonyms": [
{
"word": "prole"
},
{
"word": "plebe"
},
{
"word": "plebeian"
}
],
"translations": [
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "plebey",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "պլեբեյ"
},
{
"code": "hy",
"lang": "Armenian",
"roman": "ṙamik",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "ռամիկ"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "rahvas"
},
{
"code": "fi",
"lang": "Finnish",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "prole"
},
{
"code": "de",
"lang": "German",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "Prolet"
},
{
"code": "fa",
"lang": "Persian",
"roman": "'âmmi",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "عامی"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "ralé"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "gentalha"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "plebe"
},
{
"code": "pt",
"lang": "Portuguese",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "zé"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "býdlo",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "бы́дло"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "mandado"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "plebeyo"
},
{
"code": "th",
"lang": "Thai",
"roman": "prâi",
"sense": "common person",
"word": "ไพร่"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prostóljud",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"collective",
"masculine"
],
"word": "просто́люд"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prostoljúddja",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"collective",
"neuter"
],
"word": "простолю́ддя"
},
{
"code": "uk",
"lang": "Ukrainian",
"roman": "prostóljúdyn",
"sense": "common person",
"tags": [
"masculine",
"rare"
],
"word": "просто́лю́дин"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lower social class"
],
"word": "pleb"
}
{
"categories": [
"English adjectives",
"English back-formations",
"English clippings",
"English countable nouns",
"English entries with incorrect language header",
"English lemmas",
"English nouns",
"English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
"English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *pleh₁-",
"English uncomparable adjectives",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Pages with 1 entry",
"Pages with entries",
"Rhymes:English/ɛb",
"Rhymes:English/ɛb/1 syllable",
"Terms with Armenian translations",
"Terms with Finnish translations",
"Terms with German translations",
"Terms with Persian translations",
"Terms with Portuguese translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations",
"Terms with Thai translations",
"Terms with Ukrainian translations",
"en:People"
],
"etymology_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ine-pro",
"3": "*pleh₁-"
},
"expansion": "",
"name": "root"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "plebeian",
"nocap": "a"
},
"expansion": "clipping of plebeian",
"name": "clipping"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"nocap": "1"
},
"expansion": "back-formation",
"name": "back-form"
}
],
"etymology_text": "A clipping of plebeian and plebe, sometimes also understood as a back-formation from plebs.",
"head_templates": [
{
"args": {
"1": "-"
},
"expansion": "pleb (not comparable)",
"name": "en-adj"
}
],
"lang": "English",
"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "adj",
"senses": [
{
"glosses": [
"Of or concerning the lower class of a society."
],
"links": [
[
"concerning",
"concerning"
],
[
"lower class",
"lower class"
],
[
"society",
"society"
]
],
"tags": [
"not-comparable"
]
},
{
"categories": [
"English derogatory terms"
],
"glosses": [
"Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse."
],
"links": [
[
"derogatory",
"derogatory"
],
[
"Undistinguished",
"undistinguished"
],
[
"commonplace",
"commonplace"
],
[
"unsophisticated",
"unsophisticated"
],
[
"vulgar",
"vulgar"
],
[
"coarse",
"coarse"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(derogatory) Undistinguished, commonplace, unsophisticated, vulgar, coarse."
],
"tags": [
"derogatory",
"not-comparable"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/plɛb/"
},
{
"audio": "En-au-pleb.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/f/f7/En-au-pleb.ogg/En-au-pleb.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f7/En-au-pleb.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛb"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"lower social class"
],
"word": "pleb"
}
Download raw JSONL data for pleb meaning in English (7.8kB)
This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-11-04 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-10-02 using wiktextract (d6bf104 and a5af179). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.
If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.