as in aristocratic
of high birth, rank, or station
came from a patrician family
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as in aristocrat
a man or woman of high birth or social position
the Southern patricians who once resided in these stately plantation homes
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Recent Examples of patrician
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
Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 9 Feb. 2026
The pink, patrician Julia, with her irreproachably healthy life style, swayed stiffly in an awkward squat, red-cheeked and trembling.
—Nell Zink, New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2025
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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
Editorials dissected how to achieve the brand’s traditional, patrician look, while TikTok and Instagram filled with home décor hauls inspired by the label’s timeless Americana.
—Angela Velasquez, Sourcing Journal, 9 Feb. 2026
The pink, patrician Julia, with her irreproachably healthy life style, swayed stiffly in an awkward squat, red-cheeked and trembling.
—Nell Zink, New Yorker, 21 Dec. 2025
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Fitzgibbons is known for being the chairman of event-planning firm Fait Accompli, which is the go-to wedding organizer within British aristocratic circles.—
Elise Taylor,
Vanity Fair,
11 June 2026
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In my experience, some Americans with an overly keen interest in English aristocratic traditions seem motivated by disdain for their fellow citizens who are not descended from white Europeans.—
Helen Lewis,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2026
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One only has to think about the British fight against Nazism to be reminded that it was made of imperialists, constitutionalists, stick-in-the-mud aristocrats, and the socialists who first helped put Winston Churchill into power and then five years later helped push him out again.—
Adam Gopnik,
New Yorker,
8 June 2026
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The 66-year-old aristocrat now lives in a five-bedroom farmhouse on the King’s Sandringham Estate in Norfolk, England.—
Brian Niemietz,
New York Daily News,
6 June 2026
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One of these high-ranking British nobles was the Earl of Euston.—
Stephanie Nolasco , Ashley Papa,
FOXNews.com,
1 June 2026
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Past the violin was an oil painting of the child Mozart entertaining nobles at the Maison du Temple.—
Michael Schulman,
New Yorker,
18 May 2026
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“Patrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrician. Accessed 12 Jun. 2026.
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