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patron
1[ pey-truhn ]
noun
- a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
- a person who supports with money, gifts, efforts, or endorsement an artist, writer, museum, cause, charity, institution, special event, or the like:
a patron of the arts; patrons of the annual Democratic dance.
- a person whose support or protection is solicited or acknowledged by the dedication of a book or other work.
- Roman History. the protector of a dependent or client, often the former master of a freedman still retaining certain rights over him.
- Ecclesiastical. a person who has the right of presenting a member of the clergy to a benefice.
patrón
2[ pah-trawn ]
noun
- (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.
patron
1/ patrɔ̃ /
noun
- a man, who owns or manages a hotel, restaurant, or bar
patron
2/ ˈpætərn /
noun
- a variant spelling of pattern 2
patron
3/ ˈpeɪtrən; pəˈtrəʊnəl /
noun
- a person, esp a man, who sponsors or aids artists, charities, etc; protector or benefactor
- a customer of a shop, hotel, etc, esp a regular one
- See patron saint
- (in ancient Rome) the protector of a dependant or client, often the former master of a freedman still retaining certain rights over him
- Christianity a person or body having the right to present a clergyman to a benefice
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Derived Forms
- patronal, adjective
- ˈpatronly, adjective
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Other Words From
- patron·al patron·ly adjective
- patron·dom patron·ship noun
- patron·less adjective
- sub·patron·al adjective
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Word History and Origins
Origin of patron1
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Origin of patron1
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Example Sentences
I hardly spoke to every patron, but there may have been some validity to his assessment.
The artist came down and stood beside his patron to assess things.
Michelangelo tricked his patron about the David, but sometimes he was forcibly reminded who paid the bills.
He was a scion of immense wealth, a civil rights activist, and an art collector and patron.
At the time, last March, the then-46-year-old Omidyar was being heralded as a patron saint of the financially beleaguered newsbiz.
It was evident to the German doctor that his patron looked forward to his great-niece's visit with pleasure.
Owing to the death of Popham, their chief patron, and other misfortunes, the colonists returned to England in 1608.
Conjecture, lost in the mazy distance, gladly lays hold of something substantial in the shape of snuff's first royal patron.
He was a politic monarch, the patron of men of letters, and an excellent author himself.
Nor can a telephone company legally charge a higher rental for a telephone to a telegraph company than to any other patron.
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