1. A member of the aristocracy
   "The patrician maintained his family's centuries-old estate";
   - aristocrat, blue blood, aristo [informal]
    
2. A person of refined upbringing and manners
   "The patrician hostess greeted her guests with impeccable etiquette"

1. Belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy
   "patrician landholders of the American South";
   - aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle [archaic]
    
2. Befitting a person of noble origin
   "a patrician nose"

Derived forms: patricians

See also: noble, refined

Type of: actor, doer, leader, worker

Part of: aristocracy, nobility

Encyclopedia: Patrician, Chris