Definition of Patron

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Patron

One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.

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.

To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.

Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

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Patron Quotations

Clairvoyant, n.: A person, commonly a woman, who has the power of seeing that which is invisible to her patron - namely, that he is a blockhead.
Ambrose Bierce

I want to be like the patron saint of reality.
Fiona Apple

William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.
Kinky Friedman

If a patron buys from an artist who needs money, the patron then makes himself equal to the artist; he is building art into the world; he creates.
Ezra Pound

When you're kept by a patron you don't have to duke it out in the media marketplace for dollars and for readers. In some ways that's a blessing because it takes a lot of pressure off you.
David Talbot

Let's get on our knees and pray. I don't know to whom. Is there a patron saint of ballistics gel?
Adam Savage

Our thoughts fly therefore by themselves in this festive hour of our plant community, to the man whom we thank for the ressurection of our Nation: Adolf Hitler, the patron of German labour and German art.
Gustav Krupp

The astrologers and historians write that the ascendant as of Oxford is Capricornus, whose lord is Saturn, a religious planet, and patron of religious men.
John Aubrey

She was a patron saint of the peripheral.
Jane Howard

Patron Translations

patron in Dutch is beschermheer, beschermheilige
patron in Latin is patronus, fautor
patron in Swedish is kund, gynnare

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