Definition of Plebe

1. Noun. A military trainee (as at a military academy).

Exact synonyms: Cadet
Category relationships: Armed Forces, Armed Services, Military, Military Machine, War Machine
Specialized synonyms: Midshipman
Generic synonyms: Trainee
Derivative terms: Cadetship

Definition of Plebe

1. n. The common people; the mob.

Definition of Plebe

1. Noun. (American English) a first year student at a US military academy; a cadet ¹

2. Noun. common person ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Plebe

1. a freshman at a military or naval academy [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Plebe

pleater
pleaters
pleather
pleathers
pleating
pleating to the sett
pleating to the stripe
pleatings
pleatless
pleatlike
pleats
pleb
plebbier
plebbiest
plebby
plebe (current term)
plebean
plebeian
plebeiance
plebeiances
plebeianism
plebeianisms
plebeianize
plebeianized
plebeianizes
plebeianizing
plebeianly
plebeians
plebes
plebian

Literary usage of Plebe

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight: Formerly One of the Justices of the by George Croke, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Harbottle Grimston, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Thomas Leach (1790)
"... plebe land upon the endowment was allotted to the vicar, and all ruled of late in the exchequer, ..."

2. A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer: Major-General of Volunteers by Frederick Whittaker (1876)
"plebe OUSTER. A TALL, slender lad of seventeen, with frank, handsome face and fair hair, landed on the wharf at West Point, in the summer of 1857. ..."

3. Mrs. Stephens' New Monthly by Ann Sophia Stephens (1856)
"As if devilling a plebe was not sufficient, tho young gentlemen had evidently set to work ... l believe the plebe will make us all sick," whispered another. ..."

4. Reports of Sir George Croke, Knight: Formerly One of the Justices of the by George Croke, Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Harbottle Grimston, Great Britain Court of Common Pleas, Thomas Leach (1790)
"... plebe land upon the endowment was allotted to the vicar, and all ruled of late in the exchequer, ..."

5. A Complete Life of Gen. George A. Custer: Major-General of Volunteers by Frederick Whittaker (1876)
"plebe OUSTER. A TALL, slender lad of seventeen, with frank, handsome face and fair hair, landed on the wharf at West Point, in the summer of 1857. ..."

6. Mrs. Stephens' New Monthly by Ann Sophia Stephens (1856)
"As if devilling a plebe was not sufficient, tho young gentlemen had evidently set to work ... l believe the plebe will make us all sick," whispered another. ..."

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