Dictionary Entry
patron
patron is a 6-letter English word with 13 senses as noun, transitive verb, and adjective in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
6 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 13 senses
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- 1noun
One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
- 2noun
A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.
- 3noun
A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.
- 4noun
An advocate or pleader.
- 5noun
One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
- 6noun
One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
- 7noun
A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.
- 8noun
See Padrone, 2.
- 9transitive verb
To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.
- 10adjective
Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.
- 11noun
a regular customer
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- 12noun
someone who supports or champions something
- 13noun
the proprietor of an inn
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