as in aristocratic
of high birth, rank, or station
came from a patrician family
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as in aristocrat
a man or woman of high birth or social position
the Southern patricians who once resided in these stately plantation homes
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Recent Examples of patrician
Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 June 2024
Such positions, along with the pope’s easygoing manner, earned him a form of pop-cultural celebrity never sought or won by his immediate predecessor, the dour and patrician Benedict.
—Maria Clara Bingemer, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
Eileen Finan, People.com, 10 June 2025
Katharine Graham, quiet, wry, and patrician, was then one of the most powerful women in America.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
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Adjective
Van Zweden has been a courteous concerto accompanist, and in January, with the pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, a soloist of patrician grace, Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto glowed, surging forward without feeling pressed.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 June 2024
Such positions, along with the pope’s easygoing manner, earned him a form of pop-cultural celebrity never sought or won by his immediate predecessor, the dour and patrician Benedict.
—Maria Clara Bingemer, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
Noun
Born into wealth and an ancestral line that stretched to the nation's founding, Rush, with piercing blue eyes, thick silver hair and a square jaw, carried an air of the patrician set.
—Eileen Finan, People.com, 10 June 2025
Katharine Graham, quiet, wry, and patrician, was then one of the most powerful women in America.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
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Both Giulio, who comes from a Sicilian aristocratic family, and Ketty, who is more lower class, use lots of drugs — pot in particular.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
29 July 2025
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Luxury travelers can check into the aristocratic haven of Orient Express Palazzo Donà Giovannelli as soon as April 1, with superior rooms starting at 1,320 euros.—
Sofia Celeste,
Footwear News,
23 July 2025
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Bellucci plays Giulio’s mother, a woman from the central Italian region of Umbria – which is where Bellucci comes from in real life – who is married to a Sicilian aristocrat.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
29 July 2025
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This wealthy municipality west of Lisbon was a turn-of-the-century haunt for aristocrats in search of its therapeutic thermal waters, before finding wartime fame in the 1940s as a den of espionage on both sides thanks to Portugal’s neutrality.—
Zoë Dare Hall,
Forbes.com,
18 July 2025
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However, to prevent the glass furnaces from causing fires, the nobles exiled the glassmakers – under penalty of death – to the island of Murano.—
Peter Mullner,
The Conversation,
3 July 2025
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Landscape paintings and portraits of nobles jostled for attention alongside historical paintings and imagined scenes from Shakespeare’s plays.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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“Patrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrician. Accessed 7 Aug. 2025.
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