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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (2)

1. a person of refined upbringing and manners;

2. a member of the aristocracy;
[syn: aristocrat, blue blood, patrician]


ADJECTIVE (2)

1. befitting a person of noble origin;
- Example: "a patrician nose"

2. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy;
- Example: "an aristocratic family"
- Example: "aristocratic Bostonians"
- Example: "aristocratic government"
- Example: "a blue family"
- Example: "blue blood"
- Example: "the blue-blooded aristocracy"
- Example: "of gentle blood"
- Example: "patrician landholders of the American South"
- Example: "aristocratic bearing"
- Example: "aristocratic features"
- Example: "patrician tastes"
[syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, n. [L. patricius: cf. F. patricien.]
   1. (Rom. Antiq.) Originally, a member of any of the families
      constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman
      citizens, before the development of the plebeian order;
      later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege
      conferred, belonged to the nobility.
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   2. A person of high birth; a nobleman.
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   3. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one
      versed in patristic lore. [R.] --Colridge.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, a. [L. patricius, fr. patres fathers or
   senators, pl. of pater: cf. F. patricien. See Paternal.]
   1. (Rom. Antiq.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres
      (fathers) or senators, or patricians.
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   2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high
      birth; noble; not plebeian.
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            Born in the patrician file of society. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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            His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood.
                                                  --Addison.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

patrician
    adj 1: befitting a person of noble origin; "a patrician nose"
    2: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or
       aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic
       Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family";
       "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle
       blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South";
       "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician
       tastes" [syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue,
       blue-blooded, gentle, patrician]
    n 1: a person of refined upbringing and manners
    2: a member of the aristocracy [syn: aristocrat, blue blood,
       patrician]


Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

60 Moby Thesaurus words for "patrician":
   Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, aristocratic, armiger, baron,
   baronet, blue blood, chivalrous, count, daimio, ducal, duke, earl,
   esquire, exalted, genteel, gentle, gentleman, gentlemanlike,
   gentlemanly, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, high, kinglike, kingly,
   knightly, lace-curtain, ladylike, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling,
   magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, nobleman,
   of gentle blood, of rank, optimate, palsgrave, peer, princelike,
   princely, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, seigneur, seignior,
   silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, titled, upper-cruster,
   viscount, waldgrave