Meaning of patron | Babel Free

Definitions

1. One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
2. One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate. A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint
3. A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint.
4. A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint
5. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
6. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble
7. A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
8. A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant
9. A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
   Roman, historical
10. A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights
11. One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
    UK
12. A padrone.
13. A property owner, a landlord, a master. (Compare patroon.)
    historical, obsolete

Equivalents

Examples

“patron of my life and liberty”

“the patron of true holiness”

“Let him who works the client wrong beware the patron’s ire!”

“St. Joseph is the patron of many different places.”

“This car park is for patrons only.”

“In our trial of the AOT, a transect was used to collect data about the languages being spoken by patrons of the NIE cafeteria during lunchtimes.”

“Half-a-dozen little boys carried it to the inn, where I had to explain to the patron, in my best Spanish, that we wanted a carriage to go to the baths, seven leagues off.”

“[...] would obtain permission from the West India Company to settle in certain areas in the New World and cultivate the land. Sometimes absentee patrons would give the colony to a group of interested persons and the patrons would finance ...”

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