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say it: puh-TRISH-uhn
patrician is a noun and adjective meaning "a person of refined upbringing and manners". It carries 4 recorded senses.
a person of refined upbringing and manners
a member of the aristocracy
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”
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.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for patrician come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.