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UK
/pætɹˈɪʃən/
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[ US /pəˈtɹɪʃən/ ]
[ US /pəˈtɹɪʃən/ ]
NOUN
- a person of refined upbringing and manners
- a member of the aristocracy
ADJECTIVE
-
belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
aristocratic features
aristocratic Bostonians
the blue-blooded aristocracy
patrician landholders of the American South
blue blood
patrician tastes
an aristocratic family
a blue family
aristocratic bearing
of gentle blood
aristocratic government -
befitting a person of noble origin
a patrician nose
How To Use patrician In A Sentence
- Between 500 and 300 B.C., there developed within the body of the citizenry, a division between two social groups or classes: patricians and plebeians.
- Until the 2nd century BC, the curule aedileships rotated on a yearly basis between patricians and plebeians.
- Then he turned back to the rich young patricians who were all laughing at her expense.
- It has been long known as a patrician, white-shoe firm with an air so understated and secretive that at least one former exec likened it to working at the CIA.
- She is fearsome and patrician, with steely grey hair and rock-solid ideals. Times, Sunday Times
- He was at once a Queens pol and yet the most patrician figure in American politics.
- Another very common form of interaction between socially disproportionate individuals was that between Roman patricians and their freedmen.
- In ancient Roman society it was represented by the patricians.
- However, where Horowitz gives you mainly patrician elegance, Moravec seems to give you the lagniappe of something deeply felt as well, without wallowing in it.
- In the second of these interregna a contest arose because two patrician consuls were elected. The History of Rome, Vol. II
