Patrician - definition, pronunciation, transcription
Amer.
|pəˈtrɪʃn|
Brit.
|pəˈtrɪʃ(ə)n|
noun
adjective
- befitting a person of noble origin
a patrician nose
- belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy (syn: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, gentle)patrician landholders of the American South
patrician tastes
patrician tastes
Extra examples
...the Southern patricians who once resided in these stately plantation homes...
...his patrician parents were very slow to accept his lowborn wife...
...their future son-in-law's lack of couth was of some concern to this patrician couple...
Word forms
adjective
singular: patrician
plural: patricians
singular: patrician
plural: patricians
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