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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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
adj 1: of the hereditary aristocracy or ruling class of ancient
Rome or medieval Europe; of honorary nobility in the
Byzantine empire [ant: plebeian, proletarian]
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]
n 1: a person of refined upbringing and manners
2: a member of the aristocracy [syn: aristocrat, blue blood]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
aristocrat, aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue blood, blue-blooded, gentle
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