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Pos: Adjective, Noun
[WORDNET DICTIONARY]

Noun patrician has 2 senses

1.  patrician(n = noun.person) - a person of refined upbringing and manners;
is a kind of
adult, grownup
Derived form adjective patrician2

2.  patrician(n = noun.person) aristocrat, blue blood - a member of the aristocracy;
is a kind of leader
is a member of aristocracy, nobility
has particulars: baronet, bart, brahman, brahmin, female aristocrat, highness, male aristocrat, prince, princess, raja, rajah, ranee, rani
Derived form adjective patrician2


Adjective patrician has 2 senses

1.  patrician(s = adj.all) - befitting a person of noble origin; "a patrician nose"

2.  patrician(s = adj.all) aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle - 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"
Derived forms noun patrician2, noun patrician1


[CIDE DICTIONARY]

patrician, a. [L. patricius, fr. patres fathers or senators, pl. of pater: cf. F. patricien. See Paternal.].

1.  Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians. [1913 Webster]

2.  Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian. [1913 Webster]
"Born in the patrician file of society." [1913 Webster]
"His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood." [1913 Webster]


patrician, n. [L. patricius: cf. F. patricien.].

1.  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. [1913 Webster]

2.  A person of high birth; a nobleman. [1913 Webster]

3.  One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore. Colridge. [1913 Webster]


[OXFORD DICTIONARY]

patrician, n. & adj.
--n.
1 hist. a member of the ancient Roman nobility (cf. PLEBEIAN).
2 hist. a nobleman in some Italian republics.
3 an aristocrat.
--adj.
1 noble, aristocratic.
2 hist. of the ancient Roman nobility.

Etymology:
ME f. OF patricien f. L patricius having a noble father f. pater patris father


[ROGET DICTIONARY]

Nobility

N  nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order, quality, gentility, blue blood of Castile, ancien regime, high life, haute monde, upper classes, upper ten thousand, the four hundred, elite, aristocracy, great folks, fashionable world, peer, peerage, house of lords, house of peers, lords, lords temporal and spiritual, noblesse, noble, nobleman, lord, lordling, grandee, magnifico, hidalgo, daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku, don, donship, aristocrat, swell, three- tailed bashaw, gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate, gentry, gentlefolk, squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates, optimates, pantisocracy, king, atheling, prince, duke, marquis, marquisate, earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret, baronet, baronetcy, knight, knighthood, count, armiger, laird, signior, seignior, esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour, emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali, sahib, chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave, princess, begum, duchess, marchioness, countess, lady, dame, memsahib, Do$a, maharani, rani, personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark, notables, notabilities, celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar, big bug, big gun, great gun, gilded rooster, magni nominis umbra, every inch a king, noble, exalted, of rank, princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic, high-, well-born, of gentle blood, genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly, highly respectable, in high quarters, Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete, adelig und edel sind zweierlei, noblesse oblige, nobility, rank, condition, distinction, optimacy, blood, pur sang, birth, high descent, order, quality, gentility, blue blood of Castile, ancien regime, high life, haute monde, upper classes, upper ten thousand, the four hundred, elite, aristocracy, great folks, fashionable world, peer, peerage, house of lords, house of peers, lords, lords temporal and spiritual, noblesse, noble, nobleman, lord, lordling, grandee, magnifico, hidalgo, daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku, don, donship, aristocrat, swell, three- tailed bashaw, gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate, gentry, gentlefolk, squirarchy, better sort magnates, primates, optimates, pantisocracy, king, atheling, prince, duke, marquis, marquisate, earl, viscount, baron, thane, banneret, baronet, baronetcy, knight, knighthood, count, armiger, laird, signior, seignior, esquire, boyar, margrave, vavasour, emir, ameer, scherif, sharif, effendi, wali, sahib, chevalier, maharaja, nawab, palsgrave, pasha, rajah, waldgrave, princess, begum, duchess, marchioness, countess, lady, dame, memsahib, Do$a, maharani, rani, personage of distinction, man of distinction, personage of rank, man of rank, personage of mark, man of mark, notables, notabilities, celebrity, bigwig, magnate, great man, star, superstar, big bug, big gun, great gun, gilded rooster, magni nominis umbra, every inch a king, noble, exalted, of rank, princely, titled, patrician, aristocratic, high-, well-born, of gentle blood, genteel, comme il faut, gentlemanlike, courtly, highly respectable, in high quarters, Adel sitzt im Gemuthe nicht im Gebluete, adelig und edel sind zweierlei, noblesse oblige.