Associations to the word «Patron»

Wiktionary

PATRON, noun. One who protects or supports; a defender.
PATRON, noun. A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
PATRON, noun. A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works.
PATRON, noun. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
PATRON, noun. (historical) (Roman antiquity) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights over him.
PATRON, noun. An advocate or pleader.
PATRON, noun. (UK) (ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
PATRON, noun. (nautical) A padrone.
PATRON, verb. (obsolete) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.
PATRON SAINT, noun. A saint from whom a specific group claims special protection or prayers.
PATRON SAINTS, noun. Plural of patron saint

Dictionary definition

PATRON, noun. A regular customer.
PATRON, noun. The proprietor of an inn.
PATRON, noun. Someone who supports or champions something.

Wise words

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.
Stephen King