patron
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Topics: ecclesiastical
law
lifestyle
nautical
religion
transport
Etymology: From Middle English patroun, patrone, from Old French patron, from Latin patrōnus, derived from pater (“father”). Doublet of padrone, Patronus, patroon, and pattern.
Inflected forms:
form: patrons
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
pos: noun
examples: patron of my life and liberty
the patron of true holiness
Let him who works the client wrong beware the patron’s ire!
gloss: One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
pos: noun
examples: St. Joseph is the patron of many different places.
gloss: An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
pos: noun
gloss: A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
pos: noun
tags: Roman
historical
gloss: One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
pos: noun
tags: UK
gloss: A padrone.
pos: noun
gloss: A property owner, a landlord, a master. (Compare patroon.)
pos: noun
tags: historical
obsolete
examples: 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 ...
Related words: impatronize
patronage
patroness
pattern
sponsor
Derived words: copatron
enpatron
micropatron
nonpatron
patrondom
patronize
patronise
patronless
patronlike
patronly
patron saint
patronship
playtron
Translations:
lang: Arabic
word: راعي; حامي; وصي; سيد; و
lang: Arabic
word: حريف; زبون
roman: harif, zaboun
lang: Azerbaijani
word: himayəçi
lang: Azerbaijani
word: himayədar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: havadar
lang: Azerbaijani
word: hami
lang: Bulgarian
word: защитник
roman: zaštitnik
lang: Czech
word: příznivec
lang: Dutch
word: beschermheilige
lang: Dutch
word: schutspatroon
lang: Esperanto
word: patrono
lang: Finnish
word: tukija
lang: Finnish
word: suojelija
lang: Finnish
word: suojeluspyhimys
lang: Galician
word: patrón
lang: German
word: Schirmherr
lang: German
word: Patron
lang: Greek
word: προστάτης
roman: prostátis
lang: Ancient Greek
word: προστάτης
roman: prostátēs
lang: Ancient Greek
word: πρόδικος
roman: pródikos
lang: Hungarian
word: pártfogó
lang: Hungarian
word: patrónus
lang: Hungarian
word: védnök
lang: Icelandic
word: velunnari
lang: Icelandic
word: stuðningsmaður
lang: Icelandic
word: verndari
lang: Icelandic
word: bakhjarl
lang: Italian
word: patrono
lang: Japanese
word: 守護者
roman: shugosha
lang: Kazakh
word: жебеуші
roman: jebeuşı
lang: Kazakh
word: желеп-жебеуші
roman: jelep-jebeuşı
lang: Macedonian
word: ага
roman: aga
lang: Māori
word: kairangi
lang: Middle English
word: patroun
lang: Persian
word: حامی
roman: hâmi
lang: Russian
word: засту́пник
roman: zastúpnik
lang: Russian
word: засту́пница
roman: zastúpnica
lang: Spanish
word: patrón
lang: Tocharian B
word: tanāpate
lang: Ottoman Turkish
word: صاحب
roman: sâhib
lang: Vilamovian
word: patrön