Plebeian means common or ordinary individual or behavior: “The daughter of the knight has refused to marry the soldier as he is a plebeian belonging to lower class of society.”
Proletarian means a person who has low social status; such as, a member of the working class: “Abraham Lincoln rose from a proletarian to the President of America and this is rightly called a journey from log house to the White House.”
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