PATRICIAN


Meaning of PATRICIAN in English

(~s)

1.

A ~ is a person who comes from a family of high social rank. (FORMAL)

...the ~ banker Sir Charles Villiers.

? plebeian

N-COUNT

2.

If you describe someone as ~, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank.

He was a lean, ~ gent in his early sixties.

ADJ

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