patrician

1. 1.

   befitting a person of noble origin

   “a patrician nose”

   Similarrefined
2. 2.

   belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

   “an aristocratic family”

   “aristocratic Bostonians”

   “aristocratic government”

   “a blue family”

   “blue blood”

   “the blue-blooded aristocracy”

   “of gentle blood”

   “patrician landholders of the American South”

   “aristocratic bearing”

   “aristocratic features”

   “patrician tastes”

   Synonymsaristocraticaristocraticalblueblue-bloodedgentle

   Similarnoble

Other forms of patrician

plural

patricians·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about patrician

What does patrician mean?

patrician means "a person of refined upbringing and manners". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in patrician?

patrician has 3 syllables: pa-tric-ian. The stress falls on "tric". In IPA it is /pəˈtɹɪʃən/.

What is another word for patrician?

Close synonyms include aristocrat, blue blood, aristocratic, aristocratical, blue. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is patrician a common word?

patrician is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with patrician?

8 words rhyme with patrician. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.