Definitions for Patrician

Patrician pa·tri·cian

Spelling: [puh-trish-uh n]
IPA: /pəˈtrɪʃ ən/

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).

Definitions for Patrician

noun

  1. a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat.
  2. a person of very good background, education, and refinement.
  3. a member of the original senatorial aristocracy in ancient Rome.
  4. (under the later Roman and Byzantine empires) a title or dignity conferred by the emperor.
  5. a member of a hereditary ruling class in certain medieval German, Swiss, and Italian free cities.

adjective

  1. of high social rank or noble family; aristocratic.
  2. befitting or characteristic of persons of very good background, education, and refinement:
  3. of or belonging to the patrician families of ancient Rome.

Origin of Patrician

1400-50; Latin patrici(us) patrician (pat(e)r FATHER + -icius adj. suffix) + -AN; replacing late Middle English patricion Old French patricien

Examples for Patrician

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.

Word Value for Patrician
Scrable

13

Words with friends

16

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