Synonyms of patrician

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adjective

as in aristocratic

of high birth, rank, or station

came from a patrician family

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aristocratic
• noble
• upper-class
• upper-crust
• genteel
• highborn
• gentle
• great
• blue-blooded
• grand
• royal
• highbred
• silk-stocking
• wellborn
• exalted
• superior
• regal
• princely
• lofty
• queenly
• kingly
• gentlemanly
• high
• senior
• knightly
• lordly
• ladylike
• high-level
• ennobled
• elevated

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• plebeian
• common
• lower-class
• humble
• low
• ignoble
• lowly
• mean
• inferior
• bastard
• ordinary
• illegitimate
• plain
• nonaristocratic
• baseborn
• knavish
• ungenteel
• junior
• subordinate
• degraded
• abased

patrician

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noun

pə-ˈtri-shən 

as in aristocrat

a man or woman of high birth or social position

the Southern patricians who once resided in these stately plantation homes

Synonyms & Similar Words

• aristocrat
• noble
• gentle
• blue blood
• magnate
• socialite
• gentleperson
• nabob
• mogul
• gentlefolk
• swell
• magnifico

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• commoner
• proletarian
• plebeian
• canaille
• peasant
• pleb
• peon
• boor
• fellah
• roturier

Example Sentences

Recent Examples of patrician

Adjective

As the band’s patrician, party-animal bassist, however, Roberts is quite lively, though her subplot takes a backseat to the film’s other story lines. — Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 10 Oct. 2025

No boutique hotel in Boston better captures the city’s alchemy of contemporary cool and patrician elegance. — Todd Plummer, Vogue, 3 Sep. 2025

Noun

Because this is the most dazzling, patrician and talked-about hotel to have opened in London this century—with great bones, spirit, heritage, and style; not to mention sybaritic restaurants, bars, and wellness spaces. — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 5 Apr. 2026

The show follows Wiig’s wannabe patrician Maxine Dellacorte-Simmons, who is hell-bent on becoming the belle of 1960’s Palm Beach by elbowing her way into the upper echelons of Florida’s most exclusive beach club, the Palm Royale. — Jack Dunn, Variety, 3 Mar. 2026