Meaning

One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate..

Definitions by Sense

1. One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.
2. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
3. A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
4. (historical, Roman law) A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
5. (UK, ecclesiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
6. (nautical) A padrone.
7. (obsolete or historical) A property owner, a landlord, a master. (Compare patroon.)
8. (transitive, obsolete) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.

Example Sentences

patron of my life and liberty

the patron of true holiness

Let him who works the client wrong beware the patron’s ire!

This car park is for patrons only.

In our trial of the AOT, a transect was used to collect data about the languages being spoken by patrons of the NIE cafeteria during lunchtimes.

Half-a-dozen little boys carried it to the inn, where I had to explain to the patron, in my best Spanish, that we wanted a carriage to go to the baths, seven leagues off.

[...] would obtain permission from the West India Company to settle in certain areas in the New World and cultivate the land. Sometimes absentee patrons would give the colony to a group of interested persons and the patrons would finance ...

a good cause needs not to be patroned by passion

Word Forms

• patrons
• patroning
• patroned

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When Should You Use Patron?

Use patron when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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