Crossword clues for patron
patron
- Customer contributes little money to a pool of tips, mostly
- Country singer switching centre for proprietor
- No part in play for angel?
- Financial supporter recycled no art under pressure
- Artist's support
- Type of saint
- Financial supporter
- Store's customer
- Store customer
- Museum supporter
- Funding source
- Bar regular
- Store visitor
- Paying customer
- ___ Saint
- Influential supporter
- (Regular) customer
- Supporter of the arts
- Regular customer
- Sponsor
- Art fan, perhaps
- Benefactor
- Backer
- (Italian) the proprietor of an inn
- Someone who supports or champions something
- A regular customer
- Role of many a Medici
- Kind of saint
- Lorenzo or Mellon
- St. Denis, to the French
- Este, to Tasso
- Girl and boy's benefactor
- Customer exactly right and not upset
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Patron \Pa"tron\, a.
Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection;
tutelary.
--Dryden.
Patron saint (R. C. Ch.), a saint regarded as the peculiar protector of a country, community, church, profession, etc., or of an individual.
Patron \Pa"tron\, v. t.
To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor. [Obs.]
--Sir T.
Browne.
Patron \Pa"tron\, n. [F., fr. L. patronus, fr. pater a father. See Paternal, and cf. Patroon, Padrone, Pattern.]
One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender. ``Patron of my life and liberty.''
--Shak. ``The patron of true holiness.''
--Spenser.-
(Rom. Antiq.)
A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.
A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.
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An advocate or pleader.
Let him who works the client wrong Beware the patron's ire.
--Macaulay.
One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
(Eccl. Law) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice. [Eng.]
A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.
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(Naut.) See Padrone, 2.
Patrons of Husbandry, the grangers. See Granger, 2.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a lord-master, a protector," c.1300, from Old French patron "patron, protector, patron saint" (12c.) and directly from Medieval Latin patronus "patron saint, bestower of a benefice, lord, master, model, pattern," from Latin patronus "defender, protector, former master (of a freed slave); advocate," from pater (genitive patris) "father" (see father (n.)). Meaning "one who advances the cause" (of an artist, institution, etc.), usually by the person's wealth and power, is attested from late 14c.; "commonly a wretch who supports with insolence, and is paid with flattery" [Johnson]. Commercial sense of "regular customer" first recorded c.1600. Patron saint (1717) originally was simply patron (late 14c.).
Wiktionary
n. 1 One who protects or supports; a defender. 2 A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant. 3 A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works. 4 An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble. 5 (context historical Roman antiquity English) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights over him. 6 An advocate or pleader. 7 (context UK ecclestiastical English) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice. 8 (context nautical English) A padrone. vb. (context obsolete English) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.
WordNet
n. a regular customer [syn: frequenter]
the proprietor of an inn
someone who supports or champions something [syn: sponsor, supporter]
Wikipedia
Patrón is a brand of tequila products produced in Mexico by the Patrón Spirits Company.
Patrón tequila is offered in several different varieties: Gran Patrón Burdeos, Gran Patrón Platinum, Gran Patrón Piedra, Patrón Silver, Patrón Añejo, and Patrón Reposado. It is also available in a tequila-coffee blend known as Patrón XO Cafe, a tequila-chocolate-coffee blend known as Patrón XO Cafe Dark Cocoa, and an orange liqueur known as Patrón Citrónge.
Patrón tequilas, like all tequilas, are made from the "Maguey" (heart or core) of the blue agave plant.
A patron is a person or organization that supports another.
:The act of providing supportive patronage so as to positively patronise a person or organisation is not to be confused with negative usages of the verb - to patronise.
Patron may also refer to:
- Patrón, a brand of tequila
- Patron god
- Patron saint
- Customer, also called patron
Usage examples of "patron".
Empty now, the parking lot was once filled with very expensive luxury cars and SUVs, owned by the patrons of the upscale billiards parlor, Nine Balls.
The excluded classes had been the leaders, the commanders, the men of position, the friends and the patrons of those who, only less guilty because less influential and powerful, were now intrusted with the initial work in the re-establishment of civil Government in their respective States.
One hour having expired since he had come on board, he ordered his boat, and returned to the shore, and we saw no more of him until we arrived at Spithead, when his lordship came on board, accompanied by a person whom we soon discovered was a half pay purser in the navy: a man who, by dint of the grossest flattery and numerous little attentions, had so completely ingratiated himself with his patron, that he had become as necessary an appendage to the travelling equipage, as the portmanteau or the valet-de-chambre.
Haar verbazingwekkende handen hadden ingewikkelde patronen geweven in de op een mand lijkende stoel van schaafstro.
Kamboja stallion that had proved implacable even in the heat of battle, wheeled in startled terror, settling only after he whispered the mantra of Shani, his patron deity, in its ear.
Farrow rode up to the third floor, where patrons were already lining up for the ten-thirty show featuring sitcom star Mike Minner and the usual accompaniment of barely clad show girls.
It had been ringing all through his lunch at the Bello Mondo and the other patrons were beginning to get annoyed.
Detective Marume had learned that Nitta was patron to many courtesans besides Wisteria.
And even if they have not endured their excommunication for a year, such obstructors can still be proceeded against as patrons of heretics.
While keeping most of the picture intact, thus saving on the expense of hiring an artist, a modest amount of overpainting could transform Veronica Lake into Saint Veronica and she would have her very own respectable patron saint for her business.
The needful dramatic illusion was obviously evoked in the playgoer of the past with an ease that is unknown to the present patrons of the stage.
Whilst a potman laboured to restart the ancient Wurlitzer, a canny Scotsman, in a kilt and war bonnet, entertained the disgruntled patrons with an exhibition of standing on one leg.
I worried about our jeans and T-shirts, which were indistinguishable from those of several people at the bar, although the other patrons had doubtless paid dearly to have theirs prefaded, shredded, and ripped by the Banana Republic instead of waiting to have them wrecked gratis by Canine Enterprises.
I joined the line of patrons to prepay the parking ticket and took the escalator upstairs.
The object of the bill proposed, the noble duke subsequently explained, was to give effect to the principle of non-intrusion on the right of the congregation to give their approval or dissent to the appointment of any presentee that might be offered them by the patron.