Patron

['peɪtr(ə)n] or ['petrən]

Definition

(noun.) a regular customer.

(noun.) someone who supports or champions something.

(noun.) the proprietor of an inn.

Editor: Upton--From WordNet

Definition

(n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.

(n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.

(n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.

(n.) An advocate or pleader.

(n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.

(n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

(n.) A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.

(n.) See Padrone, 2.

(v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.

(a.) Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

Editor: Terence

Synonyms and Synonymous

n. Defender, advocate, protector, supporter, favorer, guardian, good genius, tutelary saint.

Edited by Amber

Definition

n. a protector: one who countenances or encourages: one who has the right to appoint to any office esp. to a living in the church: a guardian saint:—fem. Pā′troness.—v.t. to treat as a patron.—n. Pā′tronage the support given by a patron: guardianship of saints: the right of bestowing offices privileges or church benefices.—v.t. (Shak.) to support.—adj. Pā′tronal.—n. Pātronisā′tion.—v.t. Pā′tronīse to act as a patron toward: to give countenance or encouragement to: to assume the air of a patron towards.—n. Pā′tronīser.—adj. Pā′tronīsing.—adv. Pā′tronīsingly.—adj. Pā′tronless.

Edited by Clare

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