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

Customer adoption of Bedrock—Amazon’s platform for accessing AI models from Anthropic, Meta, and OpenAI—has seen solid performance and customers spent more on the service in Q2 than in all prior quarters combined, an analyst noted on Thursday.

— Amanda Gerut, Fortune, 31 July 2026
With more than 350 clients, Ghost Town is now everywhere and their customers rave about their work to move encampments that once held them hostage.

— Laurie Perez, CBS News, 31 July 2026

Definition of customers

Noun

Once outside capital owns a portion of FIFA’s commercial rights, pressure inevitably grows to increase revenues, maximize broadcast value and create more inventory for sponsors.

— Clemente Lisi, Forbes.com, 29 July 2026
Ray thanked the city, sponsors, mentors, pastors, volunteers and audience members who supported his work.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026

Definition of sponsors

Noun

Interest groups play an outsize role in national elections, politicians spend their time on calls with wealthy donors instead of meeting constituents and parties increasingly focus on themselves rather than average Americans.

— Susan Ostermann, Mercury News, 1 Aug. 2026
Ticket sales will never bring in the kind of money theaters need to sustain a robust slate of diverse programming — that will always have to come from donors.

— Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 July 2026

Definition of donors

Noun

Trial testimony indicated clients transferred upwards of $2 million to Engle, expecting the money to remain in those accounts until their loans were funded.

— Doug Myers, CBS News, 1 Aug. 2026
Both owners are especially grateful for the support of the community and their clients, who tend to be mainly women.

— Janice Phelan, Kansas City Star, 31 July 2026

Definition of clients

Noun

Verma noted that these centered around policy or ideological disagreements, which allowed the government to rally its supporters with counter-narratives.

— Rhea Mogul, CNN Money, 28 July 2026
Before the ceremony, nominees, performers, presenters and supporters gathered near the Black Carpet.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 28 July 2026

Definition of supporters

Noun

Another quintessential Ibiza experience is a day trip to the nearby island of Formentera, which the hotel will happily arrange for guests.

— Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 30 July 2026
The couple and their families aside, wedding guests too feel the need to cultivate the perfect wardrobe, spending on several new pieces every season.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 30 July 2026

Definition of guests

Noun

But while the group tries to expand its outreach, some of the program’s largest benefactors are moving on.

— Daniel Libit, Sportico.com, 23 July 2026
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