Patrician is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.
You can make 315 anagrams from letters in Patrician (aaciinprt).
1400-50; Latin patrici(us) patrician (pat(e)r FATHER + -icius adj. suffix) + -AN; replacing late Middle English patricion Old French patricien
Distinguished from the patrician, who was a saturated solution.
patrician she was from the crown of her dusky head to the tip of her jewelled sandal.
He could be unbearably glib, but his patrician persona and acid tongue, his radiating sense of superiority, made for good showbiz.
When silent she was the picture of a patrician beauty; but, alas!
He might have been raised to the dignity of patrician, if he would have renounced his Arian creed.
He was a patrician radical, a type more common in Europe than here, since we have never had a formal aristocracy.
"patrician and plebeian must stand or fall together, my Marcia," he said quietly.
One of those votes belonged to Justice Lewis Powell, a well-heeled, patrician justice from Virginia appointed by Richard Nixon.
This patrician decline occurred at the state and local level as well.
In one corner: the patrician, privileged, well-mannered 35-year-old Quayle.
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