PATRONS Synonyms: 72 Similar and Opposite Words

patrons

noun

plural of patron

as in customers

a person who buys a product or uses a service from a business a restaurant patron

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as in sponsors

a person who takes the responsibility for some other person or thing the wealthy philanthropist is one of the city's most generous patrons of its symphony orchestra

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as in donors

one that helps another with gifts or money the patron for the museum's current blockbuster is the city's biggest banking institution

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Recent Examples of patrons For customers, the bigger takeaway is that competition in fast food appears to be getting tighter, especially as hungry patrons pay closer attention to freshness, variety and value. — Staff Reports, USA Today, 20 July 2026 Pride events are held today in San Diego to honor the Stonewall uprising of 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn in New York City and patrons fought back in a dayslong confrontation. — Maura Fox, San Diego Union-Tribune, 19 July 2026 First-time guests receive the red-carpet treatment via marketing hype, while returning patrons are sometimes met with indifference. — Joseph Edgar, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026 The deck would address parking congestion at the library as well as providing more spaces for downtown patrons. — Carolyn Stein, Chicago Tribune, 16 July 2026 Studios weren’t able to produce much for nearly a year as negotiations wore on, which meant there simply weren’t enough new movies to entice patrons. — Brent Lang, Variety, 15 July 2026 Former patrons of the bar and other mourners visited the site Tuesday, adding to the growing pile of flowers leaning on the guardrails cordoning off the location of the blaze. — ABC News, 14 July 2026 At the Art Algebra studio, at 1001 Glade Road Suite 100 right next door to girligirl boutique, patrons can admire art and then head to a coffee bar right inside the gallery. — Fousia Abdullahi, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 14 July 2026 On a recent weekend, tot-sized patrons were enjoying Pixieland’s rides, dressed in birthday garb — scooting around in moving teacups, getting lifted on the Frog Hopper. — John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 13 July 2026

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Noun

That company floundered in the pandemic, but Speier continued to make unrealistic promises to customers.

— Julia Coin July 24, Charlotte Observer, 24 July 2026
Ahead of the games, PayJoy surveyed 5,300 of its Mexican customers.

— Boaz Sobrado, Forbes.com, 24 July 2026

Definition of customers

Noun

In response, the panelists, all senior execs at major companies, offered to advise her personally and connect her and her teammates with potential sponsors.

— Ellie Austin, Fortune, 22 July 2026
The agency also published the FDA’s internal checklist so sponsors can see exactly what’s required, part of a broader streamlining push that was long overdue.

— Avik Roy, Forbes.com, 22 July 2026

Definition of sponsors

Noun

Political committees often will secure tickets to a popular sporting contest or concert, then invite donors to spend big to attend the event with the politician.

— Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 17 July 2026
Readers of the report may not be carefully attuned to the legal arguments used to justify anti-BDS legislation, but PEN America obviously is and so are the donors who support this work.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 July 2026

Definition of donors

Noun

Advisors should help clients slow down, clarify their actual goals, understand the tax implications and resist pressure from outside voices.

— Expert Panel®, Forbes.com, 17 July 2026
Bank of America Securities analyst Steve Juneau predicted in a May 20 note to clients that oil and gas costs would remain stubbornly high, leaving tariff rebates as a way to extinguish higher freight costs.

— Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 17 July 2026

Definition of clients

Noun

Video from Reuters shows Houthi supporters in Yemen gathering in the capital Sanaa on Monday night praising the naval blockade.

— Jomana Karadsheh, CNN Money, 21 July 2026
Each was cast as the antagonist in the game that saw England’s exit, prompting invective from rival supporters on their return and a siege mentality in Manchester.

— Laurie Whitwell, New York Times, 21 July 2026

Definition of supporters

Noun

As guests tuck in to homemade waffles topped with plump berries, the general manager talks about the history of the city’s oldest, continuously operating hotel — a landmark on the New River since 1936.

— Tracey Teo, AJC.com, 23 July 2026
The 236,000 gross tonnage vessel can accommodate up to 2,290 crew members and 5,668 guests at double occupancy.

— Colson Thayer, PEOPLE, 22 July 2026

Definition of guests

Noun

The park around the corner lists one of its benefactors as Todd Graves, the LSU donor and CEO of the Raising Cane’s chicken fingers empire.

— Matt Baker, New York Times, 17 July 2026
The Zimmerli Art Museum, the fine arts museum of Rutgers University in New Jersey, has just received a gift of more than seventy noteworthy works of modern and contemporary art from Anne and Arthur Goldstein, longtime benefactors of the institution.

— News Desk, Artforum, 16 July 2026