About The Word Patrician
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Patrician
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What's The Definition Of Patrician?
[n] a member of the aristocracy
[n] a person of refined upbringing and manners [adj] of the hereditary aristocracy or ruling class of ancient Rome or medieval Europe; of honorary nobility in the Byzantine empire [adj] 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" Synonyms | Synonyms for Patrician: aristocrat | aristocratic | aristocratical | blue | blue blood | blue-blooded | gentle Related Terms | Find terms related to Patrician: archduke | aristocrat | aristocratic | armiger | baron | baronet | blue blood | Brahman | chivalrous | count | daimio | ducal | duke | earl | esquire | exalted | genteel | gentle | gentleman | gentlemanlike | gentlemanly | grand duke | grandee | hidalgo | high | kinglike | kingly | knightly | lace-curtain | ladylike | laird | landgrave | lord | lordling | magnate | magnifico | margrave | marquis | noble | nobleman | of gentle blood | of rank | optimate | palsgrave | peer | princelike | princely | queenlike | queenly | quite the lady | seigneur | seignior | silk-stocking | squire | swell | thoroughbred | titled | upper-cruster | viscount | waldgrave See Also | adult | aristocracy | Baronet | Bart | Brahman | Brahmin | female aristocrat | grownup | Highness | leader | male aristocrat | nobility | noble | prince | princess | raja | rajah | ranee | rani Patrician In Webster's Dictionary \Pa*tri"cian\, a. [L. patricius, fr. patres fathers or
senators, pl. of pater: cf. F. patricien. See {Paternal}.]
1. (Rom. Antiq.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres
(fathers) or senators, or patricians.
2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high
birth; noble; not plebeian.
Born in the patrician file of society. --Sir W.
Scott.
His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood.
--Addison.
\Pa*tri"cian\, n. [L. patricius: cf. F. patricien.] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) 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. 2. A person of high birth; a nobleman. 3. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore. [R.] --Colridge. |
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