patrician

patrician is a 9-letter English word with 9 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians.
2. adjective. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.
3. noun. 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.
4. noun. A person of high birth; a nobleman.
5. noun. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore.
6. noun. a member of the aristocracy

   Synonyms: aristocrat

7. noun. a person of refined upbringing and manners
8. adjective. belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

   "an aristocratic family"

   "aristocratic Bostonians"

   Synonyms: aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, gentle

9. adjective. befitting a person of noble origin

   "a patrician nose"

Synonyms

aristocrat, aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, gentle

Common word forms

patricians, patricianly

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