patronised

1. 1.

   having patronage or clients

   “street full of flourishing well-patronized shops”

   Synonymspatronized

Questions about patronised

What does patronised mean?

patronised means "having patronage or clients".

How many syllables are in patronised?

patronised has 3 syllables: pa-troni-sed. The stress falls on "pa".

What is another word for patronised?

Close synonyms include patronized. 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 patronised a common word?

patronised is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.