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1. (n.) patrician
a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat.
2. patrician
a person of breeding, education, and refinement.
3. patrician
a member of the original hereditary aristocracy of ancient Rome, having such privileges as the exclusive right to hold certain offices.
4. (adj.) patrician
of high social rank or noble family; aristocratic.
5. patrician
befitting of, or characteristic of, patricians.
Etymology: (1400–50; late ME patricion < OF patricien < L patrici(us) patrician (pat(e)rfather+ -icius adj. suffix))
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Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (noun) patrician
a person of refined upbringing and manners
2. (adj) aristocrat, blue blood, patrician
a member of the aristocracy
3. (adj) patrician
befitting a person of noble origin
"a patrician nose"
4. (adj) aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician
belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
"an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family"; "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South"; "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician tastes"
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Webster Dictionary |
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1. (adj) patrician
of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians
2. (adj) patrician
of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian
3. (noun) patrician
originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility
4. (noun) patrician
a person of high birth; a nobleman
5. (noun) patrician
one familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore
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