patrician
1. a person of refined upbringing and manners
• Hypernyms:
adult, grownup
2. a member of the aristocracy
• Syn:
aristocrat, blue blood
• Derivationally related forms:
aristocratical (for: aristocrat)
• Hypernyms:
leader
• Hyponyms:
baronet, Bart, brahman, brahmin, female aristocrat,
Highness, male aristocrat, prince, princess, raja, rajah,
rani, ranee
• Member Holonyms:
nobility, aristocracy
1. befitting a person of noble origin
- a patrician nose
• Similar to:
refined
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
• Similar to:
noble
• Derivationally related forms:
gentility (for: gentle), aristocrat (for: aristocratical), aristocracy (for: aristocratic)
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