commoner vs plebeian

plebeian vs commoner

commoner and plebeian both are nouns.

commoner is not an adjective while plebeian is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
commoner	Yes	No	No	No
plebeian	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, plebeian is a hyponym of commoner; that is, plebeian is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than commoner:

commoner: a person who holds no title
plebeian: one of the common people

Other hyponyms of commoner include bourgeois, burgher, cipher, cypher, nobody, nonentity, everyman, Joe Bloggs, Joe Blow, John Doe, man in the street, layman, layperson, secular, pleb, prole, proletarian, worker, rustic.

commoner (noun)	plebeian (noun)
a person who holds no title	one of the common people

commoner (adjective)	plebeian (adjective)
	of or associated with the great masses of people

Difference between commoner and plebeian

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