adjective
low or inferior in station or quality
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- a humble cottage
- a lowly parish priest
- a modest man of the people
- small beginnings
adjective
inferior in rank or status
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- the junior faculty
- a lowly corporal
- petty officialdom
- a subordinate functionary
adjective
used of unskilled work (especially domestic work)
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adjective
of low birth or station (`base' is archaic in this sense)
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- baseborn wretches with dirty faces
- of humble (or lowly) birth