plebes
First-year military cadets
Plebes is the plural of plebe, an informal term for a first-year student at a military academy such as West Point or Annapolis.
The word derives from plebeian, the common class in ancient Rome as distinguished from the patricians.
Outside military contexts, plebes sometimes appears as a casual or slightly dismissive term for ordinary people or newcomers to any institution.
The plebes had to complete basic training before joining upperclassmen.
Inhabitants of a place
folk · multitude · proletariat · rank-and-file · hoi polloi · commoners · rabble · peasantry
One who lacks experience
- neophyteInexperienced beginner
- rookieInexperienced newcomer
- traineeOne being instructed
- greenhornInexperienced, gullible newcomer
newbie · fledgling · recruit · initiate · amateur · newcomer · uninitiated · inexperienced
Institution of learning
- barracksSoldiers' residential building
- drillHole-boring device
- formationCreation or arrangement
- boot campInitial military instruction program
officer training · mess hall · upperclassmen · hazing · indoctrination · West Point · Annapolis · fourth-class
Deprived of voting rights
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- disadvantagedLacking social or economic resources
- oppressedTreated with cruel control
- lower-classOf humble social standing
underclass · powerless · voiceless · vulnerable · excluded · underprivileged · underserved · dispossessed
populace
Inhabitants of a place
citizens · folk · multitude · proletariat · rank-and-file · hoi polloi · commoners · rabble · peasantry · working-class
beginner
One who lacks experience
greenhorn · newbie · fledgling · recruit · initiate · amateur · newcomer · uninitiated · inexperienced · fresh-faced
academy
Institution of learning
boot camp · officer training · mess hall · upperclassmen · hazing · indoctrination · West Point · Annapolis · fourth-class · firsties
disenfranchised
Deprived of voting rights
- impoverishedExtremely lacking in money
- disadvantagedLacking social or economic resources
- oppressedTreated with cruel control
lower-class · underclass · powerless · voiceless · vulnerable · excluded · underprivileged · underserved · dispossessed · downtrodden
- Cadetsnaval cadets, army cadets, midshipman, midshipmen, firsties
- military cadetscadets, cadet corps, cadet training, midshipmen, JROTC
- underclassmenfreshman, freshmen, sophomore, sophomores, frosh
- Naval Academymidshipman, midshipmen, Annapolis, commissioning, superintendent
- West Pointcadets, firsties, yearling, yearlings, cow
- campus populationfreshmen, sophomores, juniors, seniors, undergraduates
plebesfirsties
Claim to be first
upperclassmen · seniors · cadre · youngsters · yearlings
plebespatricians
Hereditary ruling class
aristocrats · nobles · nobility · optimates · equestrians
plebeselites
Privileged powerful groups
aristocrats · patricians · upper class · nobility · bluebloods
plebeian, plebiscite, plebe, plebs, pleb, plebeians, plebiscites