Thanks for using this online dictionary, we have been helping millions of people improve their use of the english language with its free online services. English definition of patron is as below...

Pan :: Pan (n.) The god of shepherds, guardian of bees, and patron of fishing and hunting. He is usually represented as having the head and trunk of a man, with the legs, horns, and tail of a goat, and as playing on the shepherd's pipe, which he is said to have invented..

Patronage :: Patronage (v. t.) To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.

Dedicator :: Dedicator (n.) One who dedicates; more especially, one who inscribes a book to the favor of a patron, or to one whom he desires to compliment..

Patron :: Patron (n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him..

Patronage :: Patronage (n.) Special countenance or support; favor, encouragement, or aid, afforded to a person or a work; as, the patronage of letters; patronage given to an author..

Donative :: Donative (n.) A benefice conferred on a person by the founder or patron, without either presentation or institution by the ordinary, or induction by his orders. See the Note under Benefice, n., 3..

Crispin :: Crispin (n.) A shoemaker; -- jocularly so called from the patron saint of the craft.

Dedicate :: Dedicate (v. t.) To inscribe or address, as to a patron..

Patron :: Patron (n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

Prestimony :: Prestimony (n.) A fund for the support of a priest, without the title of a benefice. The patron in the collator..

Themis :: Themis (n.) The goddess of law and order; the patroness of existing rights.

Patron :: Patron (n.) A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.

Protector :: Protector (n.) One who, or that which, defends or shields from injury, evil, oppression, etc.; a defender; a guardian; a patron..

Usurper :: Usurper (n.) One who usurps; especially, one who seizes illegally on sovereign power; as, the usurper of a throne, of power, or of the rights of a patron..

Patronal :: Patronal (a.) Patron; protecting; favoring.

Avowee :: Avowee (n.) The person who has a right to present to a benefice; the patron; an advowee. See Advowson.

Competition :: Competition (n.) The act of seeking, or endeavoring to gain, what another is endeavoring to gain at the same time; common strife for the same objects; strife for superiority; emulous contest; rivalry, as for approbation, for a prize, or as where two or more persons are engaged in the same business and each seeking patronage; -- followed by for before the object sought, and with before the person or thing competed with..

Cabaret :: Cabaret (n.) a type of restaurant where liquor and dinner is served, and entertainment is provided, as by musicians, dancers, or comedians, and providing space for dancing by the patrons; -- similar to a nightclub. The term cabaret is often used in the names of such an establishment..

Patron :: Patron (v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.

Heeler :: Heeler (n.) A dependent and subservient hanger-on of a political patron.

Random Fonts

Most Popular