Word Meanings - PATRON - Book Publishers vocabulary database

One who has gift and disposition of a benefice. 5. A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint. (more info) 1. One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender. "Patron of my life and liberty." Shak. "The patron of true holiness." Spenser.

Additional info about word: PATRON

One who has gift and disposition of a benefice. 5. A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint. (more info) 1. One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender. "Patron of my life and liberty." Shak. "The patron of true holiness." Spenser. A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him. A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself. An advocate or pleader. Let him who works the client wrong Beware the patron's ire. Macaulay. 3. One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PATRON)

• Benefactor
• Friend
• supporter
• contributor
• upholder
• well-wisher
• favorer
• well-doer
• patron
• Constituent
• Voter
• returner
• sender
• deputer
• appointer
• ingredient
• element
• component

Related words: (words related to PATRON)

• FRIENDLINESS
  The condition or quality of being friendly. Sir P. Sidney.
• FRIENDED
  1. Having friends; 2. Iuclined to love; well-disposed. Shak.
• PATRONIZING
  Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray.
• PATRONYMIC
  Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination.
• PATRONIZER
  One who patronizes.
• ELEMENTAL
  1. Pertaining to the elements, first principles, and primary ingredients, or to the four supposed elements of the material world; as, elemental air. "Elemental strife." Pope. 2. Pertaining to rudiments or first principles; rudimentary; elementary.
• ELEMENT
  1. One of the simplest or essential parts or principles of which anything consists, or upon which the constitution or fundamental powers of anything are based. 2. One of the ultimate, undecomposable constituents of any kind of matter. Specifically:
• COMPONENT
  Serving, or helping, to form; composing; constituting; constituent. The component parts of natural bodies. Sir I. Newton.
• FRIENDSHIP
  1. The state of being friends; friendly relation, or attachment, to a person, or between persons; affection arising from mutual esteem and good will; friendliness; amity; good will. There is little friendship in the world. Bacon. There can be no
• APPOINTER
  One who appoints, or executes a power of appointment. Kent.
• PATRONAL
  Patron; protecting; favoring. Sir T. Browne.
• ELEMENTALITY
  The condition of being composed of elements, or a thing so composed.
• FRIENDLY
  1. Having the temper and disposition of a friend; disposed to promote the good of another; kind; favorable. 2. Appropriate to, or implying, friendship; befitting friends; amicable. In friendly relations with his moderate opponents. Macaulay. 3.
• FRIEND
  freón, freógan, to love; akin to D. vriend friend, OS. friund friend, friohan to love, OHG. friunt friend, G. freund, Icel. frændi kinsman, Sw. frände. Goth. frij friend, frij to love. sq. root83. See Free, 1. One who entertains for another
• CONSTITUENT
  1. Serving to form, compose, or make up; elemental; component. Body, soul, and reason are the three parts necessarily constituent of a man. Dryden. 2. Having the power of electing or appointing. A question of right arises between the constituent
• VOTER
  One who votes; one who has a legal right to vote, or give his suffrage; an elector; a suffragist; as, as, an independent voter.
• BENEFACTOR
  One who confers a benefit or benefits. Bacon.
• RETURNER
  One who returns.
• ELEMENTALISM
  The theory that the heathen divinities originated in the personification of elemental powers.
• FAVORER
  One who favors; one who regards with kindness or friendship; a well-wisher; one who assists or promotes success or prosperity. And come to us as favorers, not as foes. Shak.
• UNFRIEND
  One not a friend; an enemy. Carlyle.
• BEFRIEND
  To act as a friend to; to favor; to aid, benefit, or countenance. By the darkness befriended. Longfellow.
• BACKFRIEND
  A secret enemy. South.
• TRANSELEMENT; TRANSELEMENTATE
  To change or transpose the elements of; to transubstantiate. Jer. Taylor.
• UNFRIENDLY
  1. Not friendly; not kind or benevolent; hostile; as, an unfriendly neighbor. 2. Not favorable; not adapted to promote or support any object; as, weather unfriendly to health. -- Un*friend"li*ness, n.