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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