as in aristocratic
of high birth, rank, or station
came from a patrician family
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as in aristocrat
a man or woman of high birth or social position
the Southern patricians who once resided in these stately plantation homes
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Recent Examples of patrician
Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
Allow me one last gasp of my assimilation into patrician ways of old.
—Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
But Trump is not the familiar breed of stuffy, patrician Republican.
—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
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Adjective
His patrician forehead crinkles, and the brown eyes charmingly plead: Forgive me!
—Zing Tsjeng, Vogue, 20 Mar. 2024
Allow me one last gasp of my assimilation into patrician ways of old.
—Anna Deavere Smith, The Atlantic, 13 Nov. 2023
Noun
There are dashes of class criticism mixed into the proceedings, largely with the Ravenscroft family, though nothing beyond light reference to Robert’s patrician background.
—Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 11 Oct. 2024
But Trump is not the familiar breed of stuffy, patrician Republican.
—Becca Rothfeld, Washington Post, 31 July 2024
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Central France has been occupied off and on for thousands of years, by aristocratic families to nomadic tribes.—
Irene Wright,
Miami Herald,
29 Jan. 2025
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According to Creighton and his co-authors, there has been quite a lot of research on castles, which dominated aristocratic sites in England after the Norman Conquest.—
Jennifer Ouellette,
Ars Technica,
28 Jan. 2025
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Chaney plays Larry Talbot in The Wolf Man, a Welsh aristocrat who is cursed to become a werewolf when he’s bitten by Bela the gypsy (Bela Lugosi) during his transformation into the beast during the full moon.—
Tim Lammers,
Forbes,
15 Jan. 2025
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In the Paramount+ series, McGregor plays Russian aristocrat Alexander Rostov, who avoids being put to death as he is placed on house arrest during the Bolshevik Revolution.—
Esther Kang,
People.com,
6 Jan. 2025
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But these days the comparison to an English noble feels weirdly apt.—
Belinda Luscombe,
TIME,
11 Dec. 2024
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On the day the archaeologists found the Nefertiti bust, German nobles from Saxony were visiting Tell el-Amarna, and Borchardt dashed between his honorable guests and the excavation.—
Eli Wizevich,
Smithsonian Magazine,
6 Dec. 2024
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“Patrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrician. Accessed 16 Feb. 2025.
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