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
Elena Dallorso, Architectural Digest, 24 May 2025
Commanding a prime corner on a patrician block on Commonwealth Avenue in the heart of Boston’s Back Bay neighborhood, The Eliot Hotel is celebrating its 100th anniversary in 2025.
—Everett Potter, Forbes, 5 Mar. 2025
Philip Elliott, Time, 7 July 2025
The Living Room: The original interiors were done by Eleanor Brown of the patrician decorating firm McMillen.
—Wendy Goodman, Curbed, 24 June 2025
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Along the historic waterway system which dates from the 12th century, there are a series of patrician residences, pleasure villas, and elegant rural farmhouses that still stand, along with what remains of their parks and gardens, side-by-side with more recent houses.
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In 1992, billionaire Ross Perot ran as an independent candidate and siphoned enough votes away from President George H.W. Bush to make the patrician insider a one-termer.
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Speaking of which, the concept of royalty among members of PFV is no exaggeration, though some of the blue blood flowing through members’ veins is merely aristocratic.—
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Once owned by Perugia’s noble Raspanti family and later part of the Porta Eburnea district, the estate gradually transformed from a defensive outpost into an aristocratic country residence.—
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The Dracula of Bram Stoker’s novel, a sophisticated aristocrat, remains, like his forebears, an unwelcome stranger.—
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Yasmin exited finance altogether, embracing her destiny as the socialite bride-to-be of blue-blooded aristocrat Henry Muck (Kit Harington).—
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VIPs included Princesse Lamballe of Italy and the Polignacs, a family of French nobles, including her bestie, the Duchesse de Polignac, along with an attractive buffet of artists, musicians, and actors.—
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Jonathan Richardson the Elder apprenticed under John Riley, the court painter of English king William of Orange, and made a fine living as a portrait painter of various nobles and notables throughout the first half of the 1700s.—
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“Patrician.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/patrician. Accessed 13 Jan. 2026.
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