ALL meanings of patrician
pa·tri·cian
P p - noun patrician a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. 1
- noun patrician a person of very good background, education, and refinement. 1
- noun patrician a member of the original senatorial aristocracy in ancient Rome. 1
- noun patrician (under the later Roman and Byzantine empires) a title or dignity conferred by the emperor. 1
- noun patrician a member of a hereditary ruling class in certain medieval German, Swiss, and Italian free cities. 1
- adjective patrician of high social rank or noble family; aristocratic. 1
- adjective patrician befitting or characteristic of persons of very good background, education, and refinement: patrician tastes. 1
- adjective patrician of or belonging to the patrician families of ancient Rome. 1
- noun patrician aristocrat 1
- adjective patrician aristocratic, noble 1
- countable noun patrician A patrician is a person who comes from a family of high social rank. 0
- adjective patrician If you describe someone as patrician, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank. 0
- noun patrician a member of the hereditary aristocracy of ancient Rome. In the early republic the patricians held almost all the higher offices 0
- noun patrician a high nonhereditary title awarded by Constantine and his eastern Roman successors for services to the empire 0
- noun patrician a title borne by numerous princes including several emperors from the 8th to the 12th centuries 0
- noun patrician a member of the upper class in numerous Italian republics and German free cities 0
- noun patrician an aristocrat 0
- noun patrician a person of refined conduct, tastes, etc 0
- adjective patrician (esp in ancient Rome) of, relating to, or composed of patricians 0
- adjective patrician aristocratic 0
- adjective patrician oligarchic and often antidemocratic or nonpopular 0
- noun patrician in ancient Rome 0
- noun patrician a member of any of the ancient Roman citizen families 0
- noun patrician later, a member of the nobility 0
- noun patrician a member of a class of honorary nobility of the later Empire 0
- noun patrician a chief administrator in the Roman provinces in Africa and Italy 0
- noun patrician a person of high rank in some medieval Italian republics and in certain free cities of the German Empire 0
- noun patrician any person of high social rank; aristocrat 0
- adjective patrician of or characteristic of patricians 0
- adjective patrician noble; aristocratic 0