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Patrician
patrician
(patricians) 1. A patrician is a person who comes from a family of high social rank. (FORMAL) ...the patrician banker Sir Charles Villiers. ? plebeian N-COUNT 2. If you describe someone as patrician, you mean that they behave in a sophisticated way, and look as though they are from a high social rank. He was a lean, patrician gent in his early sixties. ADJ
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noun Etymology: Middle English patricion, from Anglo-French ~, from Latin patricius, from patres senators, from plural of pater father — more at father Date: 15th century 1. a member of one of the original citizen families of ancient Rome 2. a. a person of high birth ; aristocrat b. a person of breeding and cultivation • ~ adjective ...Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary
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n. & adj. --n. 1 hist. a member of the ancient Roman nobility (cf. PLEBEIAN). 2 hist. a nobleman in some Italian republics. 3 an aristocrat. --adj. 1 noble, aristocratic. 2 hist. of the ancient Roman nobility. Etymology: ME f. OF patricien f. L patricius having a noble father f. pater patris father ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. ист. патриций 2. ист. аристократ 3. ист. патрицианский 4. ист. аристократический old patrician houses —- старинные дома аристократии ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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~ adj 1 typical of a member of the highest class in society; aristocratic (a patrician face) 2 belonging to the governing classes in ancient Rome (- compare plebeian) - patrician n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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- early 15c., from M.Fr. patricien, from L. patricius "noble, of the senators," from patres conscripti "Roman senators, fathers," pl. of pater "father." Contrasted, in ancient Rome, with plebeius. Applied to noble citizens and higher orders of free folk in medieval It. and Ger. cities. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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