patrician
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8.5
- noun
- /pəˈtrɪʃən/
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patricio
- As the doorman reads, a patrician-looking couple in evening clothes push their way to the front.
- duty of the patricians
- patricians in society
He likes that sort of the real estate patrician's notion of having arrived.
- He likes that sort of the real estate patrician's notion of having arrived.
- I mean, one of them is kind of in the background much of the time, the patrician of Ankh Morpork.
- He was from a patrician Roman family and therefore he was known as the patrician.
Examples
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Noble patricians, patrons of my right, defend the justice of my cause with arms!
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The Discworld series illustrated that beautifully in its story about the rise to power of the Patrician, Havelock Vetinari.
Blog text (19) -
He was from a patrician Roman family and therefore he was known as the patrician.
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From Roman history, who were the patricians and who were the plebeians?
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One of the disadvantages of being a patrician is that occasionally you're obliged to act like one.
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The image documents patricians sitting in state in a richly decorated interior space.
Academic text (2009) -
Isaac is a silver-haired patrician, overloaded with self-esteem.
Fiction book (1999) -
The duty of the patricians in a Christian commonwealth was to maintain the status quo, not through force but through mediation.
Academic text (2005) -
Patricians, draw your swords and sheathe them not... till Saturninus be Rome's emperor!
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As a member of the patrician class, he often attended lavish events in his family's honor.
Synonyms
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5.3
A person from a high social family with a title
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6.5
A person from the highest social class, often by birth or title
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8.0
A person with the lowest rank of noble title, often given by a king or queen
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5.6
A man from a high social class who has a title
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7.6
A person who comes from a rich or royal family
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9.6
A person from the upper class who has high social rank
Antonyms
How Aristocratic
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word patrician comes from the Latin patricius, from patres which means 'fathers', the leading families who ruled early Rome. So a patrician was originally one of the city's 'fathers' and today the word means a person of high social rank or noble birth.