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noun a military trainee (as at a military academy)
originFrom Latin plēbs (“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.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0