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
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
No boutique hotel in Boston better captures the city’s alchemy of contemporary cool and patrician elegance.
—Todd Plummer, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2025
Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Columbus throws the task to Mirren’s patrician Elizabeth.
—Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2025
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Adjective
As the band’s patrician, party-animal bassist, however, Roberts is quite lively, though her subplot takes a backseat to the film’s other story lines.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
No boutique hotel in Boston better captures the city’s alchemy of contemporary cool and patrician elegance.
—Todd Plummer, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2025
Noun
As the band’s patrician, party-animal bassist, however, Roberts is quite lively, though her subplot takes a backseat to the film’s other story lines.
—Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025
Columbus throws the task to Mirren’s patrician Elizabeth.
—Yvonne Zipp, Christian Science Monitor, 22 Aug. 2025
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My father, a boy, sat in the back seat with his brothers and Choute—Duchess of Montmoreau, née de Troguindy, a beautiful and aristocratic woman who went by this single childhood nickname.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
6 May 2026
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News articles and photos of the casual picnic enamored Americans, transforming their view of the royals as rigid and aristocratic to more down-to-earth.—
Karissa Waddick,
USA Today,
28 Apr. 2026
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Scuffed and pockmarked, the painting looked stoic but stripped of dignity, like an old aristocrat in a hospital gown.—
Sebastian Smee,
The Atlantic,
16 May 2026
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Alibert gained notoriety for her affair with the Prince of Wales, later King Edward VIII and then Duke of Windsor, in 1917 while he was stationed in Paris, and then for shooting dead her wealthy Egyptian aristocrat husband Ali Kamel Fahmy Bey in The Savoy Hotel in London in 1923.—
Melanie Goodfellow,
Deadline,
16 May 2026
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Past the violin was an oil painting of the child Mozart entertaining nobles at the Maison du Temple.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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The son of Italian nobles, Baldassare Castiglione’s main claim to fame was writing a book of etiquette based on his experience as a courtier, a person who serves as an attendant to a king, queen, or other member of a royal family.—
René Ostberg,
Encyclopedia Britannica,
7 May 2026
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“Patrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrician. Accessed 25 May. 2026.
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