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Definition of plebe noun from the Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary

plebe

noun
 
/pliːb/
 
/pliːb/
(US English, informal)
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  1. a first-year student at a military or naval college in the US
    Word Originearly 17th cent.: perhaps an abbreviation of plebeian.
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