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Meaning of 'patron'
Meaning of 'patron' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Patron 
[ a.]
- Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection;
tutelary. [ a.]2. Patron [ n.]
- One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender. [ n.]- 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.
- An advocate or pleader.
- One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
- One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
- A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.
- See Padrone, 2.
3. Patron [ v. t.]
- To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor. [ v. t.]Nearby Topics:
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