transcription, транскрипция: [ pətrɪʃ(ə)n ]
( patricians)
1.
A patrician is a person who comes from a family of high social rank. ( FORMAL )
...the patrician banker Sir Charles Villiers.
≠ plebeian
N-COUNT
2.
If you describe someone as patrician , you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank.
He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties.
ADJ