1. Befitting a person of noble origin
   "a patrician nose" 
2. Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
   "patrician landholders of the American South"; "patrician tastes"
   - aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle [archaic]

1. A person of refined upbringing and manners 
2. A member of the aristocracy
   - aristocrat, blue blood

Derived forms: patricians

See also: noble, refined

Type of: adult, grownup, leader

Part of: aristocracy, nobility

Encyclopedia: Patrician

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