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
Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 June 2024
Such positions, along with the pope’s easygoing manner, earned him a form of pop-cultural celebrity never sought or won by his immediate predecessor, the dour and patrician Benedict.
—Maria Clara Bingemer, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
Eileen Finan, People.com, 10 June 2025
Katharine Graham, quiet, wry, and patrician, was then one of the most powerful women in America.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
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Adjective
Van Zweden has been a courteous concerto accompanist, and in January, with the pianist Rudolf Buchbinder, a soloist of patrician grace, Beethoven’s Fourth Concerto glowed, surging forward without feeling pressed.
—Zachary Woolfe, New York Times, 7 June 2024
Such positions, along with the pope’s easygoing manner, earned him a form of pop-cultural celebrity never sought or won by his immediate predecessor, the dour and patrician Benedict.
—Maria Clara Bingemer, Foreign Affairs, 14 June 2018
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Born into wealth and an ancestral line that stretched to the nation's founding, Rush, with piercing blue eyes, thick silver hair and a square jaw, carried an air of the patrician set.
—Eileen Finan, People.com, 10 June 2025
Katharine Graham, quiet, wry, and patrician, was then one of the most powerful women in America.
—Clare Malone, New Yorker, 12 May 2025
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Adjective
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Marten, 38, grew up in a wealthy, aristocratic family with ties to the royal family.—
Catherine Nicholls,
CNN Money,
19 July 2025
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Audiences online have reveled in this pivot from Hoult, whose aristocratic vibe has made for great period dramas but never juiced his off-duty style.—
Matt Donnelly,
Variety,
14 July 2025
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The English aristocrat will receive an enormous sum to marry Gladys, the daughter of the railroad titan.—
Elise Taylor,
Vogue,
7 July 2025
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This novel, the first in a trilogy, pokes gentle fun at the aristocrat and all her unruly impulses.—
Brittany Allen,
Literary Hub,
4 June 2025
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Landscape paintings and portraits of nobles jostled for attention alongside historical paintings and imagined scenes from Shakespeare’s plays.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 July 2025
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Its patriarch, Eugenio, began supplying a few hundred liters of wine to small stores and nobles residing there.—
Irene S. Levine,
Forbes.com,
7 July 2025
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“Patrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrician. Accessed 29 Jul. 2025.
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