different between military vs plebe

English

Alternative forms

• milertary

Etymology

From Old French militaire, from Latin m?lit?ris, from m?les (“soldier”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m?l.?.t?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?l.?.t??.i/

Adjective

military (comparative more military, superlative most military)

1. Characteristic of members of the armed forces.
   • At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.

2. (Canada, US) Relating to armed forces such as the army, marines, navy and air force (often as distinguished from civilians or police forces).

3. Relating to war.
4. Relating to armies or ground forces.

Translations

Noun

military (plural military or militaries)

1. Armed forces.

Translations

Derived terms

Related terms

• militia

See also

• martial
• abbreviation: mil.
• army/Army
• navy
• air force/Air Force
• marines/Marines
• Merchant Marine
• US National Guard
• Coast Guard

Anagrams

• limitary

English

Etymology

From Latin pl?bs (“the plebeian class”), probably via Middle French plebe (“plebeians, commoners, the rabble”) and possibly later understood as a clipping of plebeian. Cognate with Italian plebe, Spanish plebe, Portuguese plebe.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /plib/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /pli?b/
• Rhymes: -i?b

Noun

plebe (plural plebes)

1. (historical, usually in the plural) A plebeian, a member of the lower class of Roman citizens.
   • 1583, Thomas Smith, De Republica Anglorum, Vol. I, Ch. xvi:

     The patricij many yeares excluding the plebes from bearing rule, vntill at last all magistrates were made common betweene them.

2. (historical, obsolete) The plebs, the plebeian class.
   • 1612, Thomas Heywood, An Apology for Actors, Ch. ii:

     All other roomes were free for the plebe or multitude.

3. (obsolete) The similar lower class of any area.
4. (US, military, slang) A freshman cadet at a military academy.
   • 1834 October, Military & Naval Magazine, p. 85:

     My drill master, a young stripling, told me I was not so ‘gross’ as most other pleibs, the name of all new cadets.

   • 1910, H. Irving Hancock, Dick Prescott's Second Year at West Point (page 84)

     "But is a plebe forbidden to stroll here?"
     "If a plebe did have the brass to try it," replied Anstey slowly, "I reckon he would have to fight the whole yearling class in turn."

Related terms

• pleb, plebs, plebeian

Derived terms

• pleb, plebe class, plebe year, plebeskin

Translations

References

• “plebe, n.”, in OED Online ?, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2006

Anagrams

• bleep

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?bem, accusative form of pl?bs. Compare the doublet pieve.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?pl?.be/
• Hyphenation: plè?be

Noun

plebe f (plural plebi)

1. Common people
2. rabble, riffraff

Related terms

• plebaglia
• plebeo
• plebiscito

Latin

Noun

pl?be

1. ablative singular of pl?bs

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?bs, pl?bis.

Noun

plebe f (plural plebes)

1. plebs (the common people)

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French plèbe, Latin plebs, plebem.

Noun

plebe f (uncountable)

1. plebs, the common people, commonality, commoners, the lower orders

Spanish

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin pl?bs, pl?bis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?plebe/, [?ple.??e]

Noun

plebe f (plural plebes)

1. plebeians, common people

   Synonym: chusma

2. (historical) plebs

Related terms

• plebeyo

Noun

plebe m or f (plural plebes)

1. (colloquial, Sinaloa and Sonora, Mexico) kid, child
2. (New Mexico) kids, children, mass noun, compare with gente usage

Further reading

• “plebe” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.