Crossword-Solution: PATRICIAN
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Patrician | a. | Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians. |
| Patrician | a. | Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian. |
| Patrician | n. | Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility. |
| Patrician | n. | A person of high birth; a nobleman. |
| Patrician | n. | One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore. |
We have 25 clues for the answer “PATRICIAN”
| Clue | Answers |
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| befitting a person of noble origin | 1 answer |
| Well-bred person | 1 answer |
| Well-bred and cultivated person | 1 answer |
| Roman senator, e.g. | 1 answer |
| Refined and very well-bred person | 1 answer |
| Of Sajak's hosting? | 1 answer |
| ARISTO | 3 answers |
| Not common | 5 answers |
| A PERSON OF REFINED UPBRINGING AND MANNERS | 11 answers |
| Gentlewoman | 14 answers |
| Baron | 29 answers |
| Nobleman | 30 answers |
| gentleman | 32 answers |
| Aristocrat | 33 answers |
| Aristocratic | 34 answers |
| best people | 36 answers |
| POWERFUL person | 42 answers |
| Genteel | 42 answers |
| titled person | 44 answers |
| WELL-bred personage | 44 answers |
| OVERPOWERING person | 45 answers |
| NOBLE personage | 46 answers |
| influential person | 48 answers |
| PERSON of distinction | 52 answers |
| Noble | 82 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with PATRICIAN (5)
Freeman and slave, patrician and plebeian, lord and serf, guild-master and journeyman, in a word, oppressor and oppressed, stood in constant opposition to one another, carried on an uninterrupted, now hidden, now open fight, a fight that each time ended, either in a revolutionary re-constitution of society at large, or in the common ruin of the contending classes.
She must earn her own food, or starve! And we have stolen upon Miss Hepzibah Pyncheon, too irreverently, at the instant of time when the patrician lady is to be transformed into the plebeian woman.
The complaint had sometimes made itself audible, even in that deaf city and dumb age, that, in the narrow streets without footways, the fierce patrician custom of hard driving endangered and maimed the mere vulgar in a barbarous manner.
Bellegarde, penniless patrician as he was, was an insatiable collector, and his walls were covered with rusty arms and ancient panels and platters, his doorways draped in faded tapestries, his floors muffled in the skins of beasts.
The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.
Quotes with PATRICIAN (3)
By diverting the Dionysian impulse into special rites on special days, the orgy kept it under control, preventing it from surfacing in more insidious and perfidious ways. More than that, it transformed it into an invigorating and liberating — and, in that much, profoundly religious — celebration of life and the life force. It permitted people to escape from their artificial and restricted social roles to regress into a more authentic state of nature, which modern psychologist…
Ankh-Morpork had dallied with many forms of government and had ended up with that form of democracy known as One Man, One Vote. The Patrician was the Man; he had the Vote.
Because there was no pre-existing patrician elite, those successful in the new book industry could write very swiftly to the top of the social hierarchy.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, USA TODAY.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1995–2008).