Definition of patrician in English:

patrician

noun pəˈtrɪʃ(ə)npəˈtrɪʃən

1An aristocrat or nobleman.
贵族
Example sentencesExamples
- Or that the patricians (like you) still think the plebeians didn't understand the treaty.
- Now there, he thought, was the face and bearing of a true patrician.
- But the bulk of it was sold off to the rich patricians who had made fortunes from war and provincial administration.
- Is it Coriolanus, or instead those who surround him, the plebeians, the patricians?
- During the year 1770 Charles Burney was travelling in Italy and when he was in Venice he wrote on 12 August that he attended a concert in the house of the patrician, Signor Grimani.
- Ideology justifies the rule of each ruling class, whether as chieftains, patricians, landowners, or those with capital, the bourgeoisie.
- He brushed some imaginary lint off of his sleeve, and assumed the pose of a bored patrician.
- The children in Chardin's paintings are not little patricians but youngsters from his personal circle of craftsmen and small traders.
- Both patricians and guildmen sought to defend their position and, like the nobles, they tried to do so both by self-regulation and by privileges.
- They tended to be quite popular with the plebeians, though the patricians were known to get very jealous.
- Then he turned back to the rich young patricians who were all laughing at her expense.
- In 1561 Francesco expanded on this concept by noting that young Venetian patricians were destined to mature into grave senators.
- Long after the autumn of 1880, far more plebeians than patricians experienced the pain of this communal punishment.
- Power, he fastidiously believed, ought simply to be handed to patricians like himself.
- Sharp divisions are established by law between patricians and plebeians.
- Well-to-do patricians were the usual patrons on the exclusive courses in England and America, partly because equipment was so expensive, but also due to the rigid caste system.
- The churches, convents, and all the dwellings of the former patricians were in ruins.
- In 1981, he became the country's fourth prime minister, but the first commoner after a trio of blue-blooded patricians.
- What are her obligations as the last of the patricians?
- But we do not have to go to such extremes - in either cost or category - to prove that patricians love posing as plebeians.
Synonyms
aristocrat, grandee, noble, nobleman, noblewoman, lord, lady, peer, peeress, peer of the realm, titled man/woman/person, landowner
landowning class, landed gentry/aristocracy
informal top person
British informal nob, rah, chinless wonder
1. 1.1North American A member of a long-established wealthy family.
  〈北美〉名门富家的成员
  Example sentencesExamples
  The patricians entrusted with Yale University's future knew it was time to swing into action.
  Like so many other young British patricians, he was saved from becoming a complete emotional cripple by a tenderhearted nanny.
  He's a wealthy patrician, but he does have an impressive record of military service.
  He has tried to break his image as a cold patrician from New England.
  Unlike many Virginia patricians of his time, he was able both to live elegantly and to preserve his property.
2. 1.2 A member of a noble family or class in ancient Rome.
  （古罗马的）贵族
  Example sentencesExamples
  The Romans also gave us the expression ‘plebs’, since Roman citizens were categorised either as patricians or plebeians.
  Villa owners, that is, former Roman patricians, were forced to settle their slaves on their own estates.
  Oppressed, as they thought, by the patricians, the plebeians in a body walked out of Rome and set themselves up on a neighbouring hill.
  Between 500 and 300 B.C., there developed within the body of the citizenry, a division between two social groups or classes: patricians and plebeians.
  Coriolanus charts the destructive contest between a vain aristocratic soldier and the self-seeking patricians who claim to represent the masses.
  Over Roman armour, he wears, strangely, the robe of a quattrocento patrician, frequently used in depictions of Florentine poets and men of letters.
  This was established early in the conflict between patricians and plebeians.
  Indeed, the celebrated ancient chronicler Plinius wrote: In Istra, the Roman patricians feel like gods!
  Montague has learned from Beckett; in both there is the iron resignation and sadness of a Roman patrician, a Cicero, or, better perhaps, a Seneca.
  Still others sold their votes to wealthy patricians, thus giving up one of the key features of their citizenship.
  A Roman patrician's pride and joy was his vegetables.
  A patrician could serve as tribune, though this was not common.
  Head and shoulders above the other players stood Julius Caesar, a patrician who regarded glory as his birthright.
  In ancient Roman society it was represented by the patricians.
  Between 486 and 511, Clovis conquered a few provinces still ruled by Roman patricians.
  The intention was to recreate the environment of the patricians of ancient Rome and to celebrate agrarian, pastoral, Christian, and cultured life.
  Another very common form of interaction between socially disproportionate individuals was that between Roman patricians and their freedmen.

adjective pəˈtrɪʃ(ə)npəˈtrɪʃən

1Belonging to or characteristic of the aristocracy.
贵族的
a proud, patrician face
一副自豪的贵族面容。
Example sentencesExamples
- His straight, patrician nose simply added to the resolute, aristocratic aura surrounding him.
- We see he's not a god or an angel, but an ordinary man - a handsome, patrician Englishman to be sure, but mortal.
- Dressed in a well-cut navy blazer, cashmere turtleneck and charcoal trousers, he cuts a patrician figure as he orders a pot of tea in the Merrion hotel.
- But that is a fault of the patrician government.
- The patrician elite who financed and directed the institution saw its mission as the eradication of class conflict.
- Access to furniture was more widespread among the ancient Greeks, whose patrician classes demanded a refined type of chair called the klismos.
- Venetian patrician society not only tolerated but flaunted courtesans, who star in some of the best Venetian paintings.
- Mary, smiling, reads a prayer-book, akin to the one she appears in, with patrician composure.
- The bourgeois or patrician oligarchies found it easier to defend their privileges.
- Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local gentry and merchants, weakening collective action and undermining the corporate, civic culture.
- And her patrician demeanour bespeaks her standing in the sport over which she has reigned supreme for a period spanning three Olympics.
- These are studies of sunlight on the shimmering white summer dresses worn by patrician women and children around the turn of the twentieth century.
- The Splendido, a former monastery and later a patrician villa, soon became what it is today: one of Europe's most exclusive, and expensive, hotels.
- With his patrician ancestry, going back to the Puritans on his mother's side, he acts as though he is born to rule.
- On this occasion, he spoke of the function and importance of art in Hamburg's public realm to an audience of patrician elite.
- We may remember that at about the same time over 70 per cent of patrician women in Venice were nuns.
- The latter was of patrician birth and a political hostess.
- As industrial employment declined, the luxury of patrician landowners living from landed income maintained the demand for urban services.
- This tone of slight snobbishness, a patrician aversion to vulgar middle-class prejudice, is typical of the book.
- Some were seated with patrician affability at windows with dramatic swagged curtains.
Synonyms
aristocratic, noble, noble-born, of noble birth, titled, blue-blooded, high-born, well born, upper-class, elite, landowning, landed, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
British county, upmarket
informal upper-crust, top-drawer, {huntin', shootin', and fishin'}
archaic gentle, of gentle birth
1. 1.1North American Belonging to or characteristic of a long-established and wealthy family.
  〈北美〉名门富家的成员
  Example sentencesExamples
  If I had to draw a parallel I would say they are like the patrician families of the reconstruction American South, trying to maintain their historic dominance after the end of slavery.
  Perhaps it was from this socially secure family that Reynold received his patrician ease, his apparent freedom from self-doubt, and his refined aesthetic sense.
  Was last night as close as the upstart governor will ever get to beating the patrician Senator?
  In the late nineteenth century, patrician historians produced hundreds of books, prints, lectures, classes, and tours about an imagined colonial city known as Old New York.
  The major department stores, while one might be a bit trendier and another a bit more patrician, all sell pretty much the same stuff.
  In the 1860s a few patrician merchants' wives subscribed independently on guarantee lists of the German opera.
  New Englanders despised New Yorkers who reciprocated the sentiment, and neither felt much affinity for the patrician Virginians or the farmers of the Carolinas and Georgia.
2. 1.2 Belonging to the nobility of ancient Rome.
  古罗马贵族的
  Example sentencesExamples
  In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron.
  Rising dowries also impinged on patrician men, forcing almost half of them to remain unmarried during the fifteenth century.
  To become consul, Coriolanus has to gain the support of both the patrician senate and the Roman people.
  Make time for Rome's patrician galleries - private collections of the great princes, in many cases still right in the family palace where they were first hung.
  A Roman woman of patrician dress and bearing stood in the doorway, accompanied by two soldiers draped in civilian clothes.
  She became the idol of patrician society of Rome.
  Wealthy plebeians were assimilated into the patrician class.
  Born in 100 BC of a leading patrician family, Caesar rose to be consul in 59 BC.
  This was the era of patrician history, when scholars followed the great classical historians in holding up to posterity examples of errors, failings, and laudable deeds.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French patricien, from Latin patricius 'having a noble father', from pater, patr- 'father'.

plebeian from mid 16th century:
This is based on Latin plebeius, from plebs, ‘the common people’, as opposed to the more aristocratic patricians who were the ‘fathers of their country’, getting their name from Latin pater ‘father’ (source of other words such as paternal (Late Middle English)). The same base is shared by plebiscite from the same period.

Rhymes

academician, addition, aesthetician (US esthetician), ambition, audition, beautician, clinician, coition, cosmetician, diagnostician, dialectician, dietitian, Domitian, edition, electrician, emission, fission, fruition, Hermitian, ignition, linguistician, logician, magician, mathematician, Mauritian, mechanician, metaphysician, mission, monition, mortician, munition, musician, obstetrician, omission, optician, paediatrician (US pediatrician), petition, Phoenician, physician, politician, position, rhetorician, sedition, statistician, suspicion, tactician, technician, theoretician, Titian, tuition, volition

Definition of patrician in US English:

patrician

nounpəˈtriSHənpəˈtrɪʃən

1An aristocrat or nobleman.
贵族
Example sentencesExamples
- They tended to be quite popular with the plebeians, though the patricians were known to get very jealous.
- Is it Coriolanus, or instead those who surround him, the plebeians, the patricians?
- He brushed some imaginary lint off of his sleeve, and assumed the pose of a bored patrician.
- Long after the autumn of 1880, far more plebeians than patricians experienced the pain of this communal punishment.
- Well-to-do patricians were the usual patrons on the exclusive courses in England and America, partly because equipment was so expensive, but also due to the rigid caste system.
- Sharp divisions are established by law between patricians and plebeians.
- Ideology justifies the rule of each ruling class, whether as chieftains, patricians, landowners, or those with capital, the bourgeoisie.
- What are her obligations as the last of the patricians?
- In 1561 Francesco expanded on this concept by noting that young Venetian patricians were destined to mature into grave senators.
- Or that the patricians (like you) still think the plebeians didn't understand the treaty.
- Then he turned back to the rich young patricians who were all laughing at her expense.
- In 1981, he became the country's fourth prime minister, but the first commoner after a trio of blue-blooded patricians.
- Both patricians and guildmen sought to defend their position and, like the nobles, they tried to do so both by self-regulation and by privileges.
- But we do not have to go to such extremes - in either cost or category - to prove that patricians love posing as plebeians.
- During the year 1770 Charles Burney was travelling in Italy and when he was in Venice he wrote on 12 August that he attended a concert in the house of the patrician, Signor Grimani.
- But the bulk of it was sold off to the rich patricians who had made fortunes from war and provincial administration.
- The children in Chardin's paintings are not little patricians but youngsters from his personal circle of craftsmen and small traders.
- Power, he fastidiously believed, ought simply to be handed to patricians like himself.
- The churches, convents, and all the dwellings of the former patricians were in ruins.
- Now there, he thought, was the face and bearing of a true patrician.
Synonyms
aristocrat, grandee, noble, nobleman, noblewoman, lord, lady, peer, peeress, peer of the realm, titled man, titled person, titled woman, landowner
1. 1.1North American A member of a long-established wealthy family.
  〈北美〉名门富家的成员
  Example sentencesExamples
  He's a wealthy patrician, but he does have an impressive record of military service.
  Unlike many Virginia patricians of his time, he was able both to live elegantly and to preserve his property.
  The patricians entrusted with Yale University's future knew it was time to swing into action.
  He has tried to break his image as a cold patrician from New England.
  Like so many other young British patricians, he was saved from becoming a complete emotional cripple by a tenderhearted nanny.
2. 1.2 A member of a noble family or class in ancient Rome.
  （古罗马的）贵族
  Example sentencesExamples
  A patrician could serve as tribune, though this was not common.
  Villa owners, that is, former Roman patricians, were forced to settle their slaves on their own estates.
  In ancient Roman society it was represented by the patricians.
  Montague has learned from Beckett; in both there is the iron resignation and sadness of a Roman patrician, a Cicero, or, better perhaps, a Seneca.
  Between 486 and 511, Clovis conquered a few provinces still ruled by Roman patricians.
  Indeed, the celebrated ancient chronicler Plinius wrote: In Istra, the Roman patricians feel like gods!
  The intention was to recreate the environment of the patricians of ancient Rome and to celebrate agrarian, pastoral, Christian, and cultured life.
  Between 500 and 300 B.C., there developed within the body of the citizenry, a division between two social groups or classes: patricians and plebeians.
  Still others sold their votes to wealthy patricians, thus giving up one of the key features of their citizenship.
  Another very common form of interaction between socially disproportionate individuals was that between Roman patricians and their freedmen.
  A Roman patrician's pride and joy was his vegetables.
  The Romans also gave us the expression ‘plebs’, since Roman citizens were categorised either as patricians or plebeians.
  This was established early in the conflict between patricians and plebeians.
  Over Roman armour, he wears, strangely, the robe of a quattrocento patrician, frequently used in depictions of Florentine poets and men of letters.
  Coriolanus charts the destructive contest between a vain aristocratic soldier and the self-seeking patricians who claim to represent the masses.
  Head and shoulders above the other players stood Julius Caesar, a patrician who regarded glory as his birthright.
  Oppressed, as they thought, by the patricians, the plebeians in a body walked out of Rome and set themselves up on a neighbouring hill.

adjectivepəˈtriSHənpəˈtrɪʃən

1Belonging to or characteristic of the aristocracy.
贵族的
a proud, patrician face
一副自豪的贵族面容。
Example sentencesExamples
- And her patrician demeanour bespeaks her standing in the sport over which she has reigned supreme for a period spanning three Olympics.
- This tone of slight snobbishness, a patrician aversion to vulgar middle-class prejudice, is typical of the book.
- Venetian patrician society not only tolerated but flaunted courtesans, who star in some of the best Venetian paintings.
- As industrial employment declined, the luxury of patrician landowners living from landed income maintained the demand for urban services.
- The latter was of patrician birth and a political hostess.
- The patrician elite who financed and directed the institution saw its mission as the eradication of class conflict.
- The Splendido, a former monastery and later a patrician villa, soon became what it is today: one of Europe's most exclusive, and expensive, hotels.
- These are studies of sunlight on the shimmering white summer dresses worn by patrician women and children around the turn of the twentieth century.
- Mary, smiling, reads a prayer-book, akin to the one she appears in, with patrician composure.
- With his patrician ancestry, going back to the Puritans on his mother's side, he acts as though he is born to rule.
- Some were seated with patrician affability at windows with dramatic swagged curtains.
- On this occasion, he spoke of the function and importance of art in Hamburg's public realm to an audience of patrician elite.
- We may remember that at about the same time over 70 per cent of patrician women in Venice were nuns.
- We see he's not a god or an angel, but an ordinary man - a handsome, patrician Englishman to be sure, but mortal.
- Dressed in a well-cut navy blazer, cashmere turtleneck and charcoal trousers, he cuts a patrician figure as he orders a pot of tea in the Merrion hotel.
- The bourgeois or patrician oligarchies found it easier to defend their privileges.
- Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local gentry and merchants, weakening collective action and undermining the corporate, civic culture.
- Access to furniture was more widespread among the ancient Greeks, whose patrician classes demanded a refined type of chair called the klismos.
- But that is a fault of the patrician government.
- His straight, patrician nose simply added to the resolute, aristocratic aura surrounding him.
Synonyms
aristocratic, noble, noble-born, of noble birth, titled, blue-blooded, high-born, well born, upper-class, elite, landowning, landed, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth
1. 1.1North American Belonging to or characteristic of a long-established and wealthy family.
  〈北美〉名门富家的成员
  Example sentencesExamples
  In the late nineteenth century, patrician historians produced hundreds of books, prints, lectures, classes, and tours about an imagined colonial city known as Old New York.
  The major department stores, while one might be a bit trendier and another a bit more patrician, all sell pretty much the same stuff.
  Was last night as close as the upstart governor will ever get to beating the patrician Senator?
  New Englanders despised New Yorkers who reciprocated the sentiment, and neither felt much affinity for the patrician Virginians or the farmers of the Carolinas and Georgia.
  If I had to draw a parallel I would say they are like the patrician families of the reconstruction American South, trying to maintain their historic dominance after the end of slavery.
  Perhaps it was from this socially secure family that Reynold received his patrician ease, his apparent freedom from self-doubt, and his refined aesthetic sense.
  In the 1860s a few patrician merchants' wives subscribed independently on guarantee lists of the German opera.
2. 1.2 Belonging to the nobility of ancient Rome.
  古罗马贵族的
  Example sentencesExamples
  A Roman woman of patrician dress and bearing stood in the doorway, accompanied by two soldiers draped in civilian clothes.
  Wealthy plebeians were assimilated into the patrician class.
  Rising dowries also impinged on patrician men, forcing almost half of them to remain unmarried during the fifteenth century.
  Born in 100 BC of a leading patrician family, Caesar rose to be consul in 59 BC.
  In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron.
  Make time for Rome's patrician galleries - private collections of the great princes, in many cases still right in the family palace where they were first hung.
  She became the idol of patrician society of Rome.
  This was the era of patrician history, when scholars followed the great classical historians in holding up to posterity examples of errors, failings, and laudable deeds.
  To become consul, Coriolanus has to gain the support of both the patrician senate and the Roman people.

Origin

Late Middle English: from Old French patricien, from Latin patricius ‘having a noble father’, from pater, patr- ‘father’.

单词	patrician
释义	Definition of patrician in English: patrician noun pəˈtrɪʃ(ə)npəˈtrɪʃən 1An aristocrat or nobleman. 贵族 Example sentencesExamples Or that the patricians (like you) still think the plebeians didn't understand the treaty. Now there, he thought, was the face and bearing of a true patrician. But the bulk of it was sold off to the rich patricians who had made fortunes from war and provincial administration. Is it Coriolanus, or instead those who surround him, the plebeians, the patricians? During the year 1770 Charles Burney was travelling in Italy and when he was in Venice he wrote on 12 August that he attended a concert in the house of the patrician, Signor Grimani. Ideology justifies the rule of each ruling class, whether as chieftains, patricians, landowners, or those with capital, the bourgeoisie. He brushed some imaginary lint off of his sleeve, and assumed the pose of a bored patrician. The children in Chardin's paintings are not little patricians but youngsters from his personal circle of craftsmen and small traders. Both patricians and guildmen sought to defend their position and, like the nobles, they tried to do so both by self-regulation and by privileges. They tended to be quite popular with the plebeians, though the patricians were known to get very jealous. Then he turned back to the rich young patricians who were all laughing at her expense. In 1561 Francesco expanded on this concept by noting that young Venetian patricians were destined to mature into grave senators. Long after the autumn of 1880, far more plebeians than patricians experienced the pain of this communal punishment. Power, he fastidiously believed, ought simply to be handed to patricians like himself. Sharp divisions are established by law between patricians and plebeians. Well-to-do patricians were the usual patrons on the exclusive courses in England and America, partly because equipment was so expensive, but also due to the rigid caste system. The churches, convents, and all the dwellings of the former patricians were in ruins. In 1981, he became the country's fourth prime minister, but the first commoner after a trio of blue-blooded patricians. What are her obligations as the last of the patricians? But we do not have to go to such extremes - in either cost or category - to prove that patricians love posing as plebeians. Synonyms aristocrat, grandee, noble, nobleman, noblewoman, lord, lady, peer, peeress, peer of the realm, titled man/woman/person, landowner landowning class, landed gentry/aristocracy informal top person British informal nob, rah, chinless wonder 1.1North American A member of a long-established wealthy family. 〈北美〉名门富家的成员 Example sentencesExamples The patricians entrusted with Yale University's future knew it was time to swing into action. Like so many other young British patricians, he was saved from becoming a complete emotional cripple by a tenderhearted nanny. He's a wealthy patrician, but he does have an impressive record of military service. He has tried to break his image as a cold patrician from New England. Unlike many Virginia patricians of his time, he was able both to live elegantly and to preserve his property. 1.2 A member of a noble family or class in ancient Rome. （古罗马的）贵族 Example sentencesExamples The Romans also gave us the expression ‘plebs’, since Roman citizens were categorised either as patricians or plebeians. Villa owners, that is, former Roman patricians, were forced to settle their slaves on their own estates. Oppressed, as they thought, by the patricians, the plebeians in a body walked out of Rome and set themselves up on a neighbouring hill. Between 500 and 300 B.C., there developed within the body of the citizenry, a division between two social groups or classes: patricians and plebeians. Coriolanus charts the destructive contest between a vain aristocratic soldier and the self-seeking patricians who claim to represent the masses. Over Roman armour, he wears, strangely, the robe of a quattrocento patrician, frequently used in depictions of Florentine poets and men of letters. This was established early in the conflict between patricians and plebeians. Indeed, the celebrated ancient chronicler Plinius wrote: In Istra, the Roman patricians feel like gods! Montague has learned from Beckett; in both there is the iron resignation and sadness of a Roman patrician, a Cicero, or, better perhaps, a Seneca. Still others sold their votes to wealthy patricians, thus giving up one of the key features of their citizenship. A Roman patrician's pride and joy was his vegetables. A patrician could serve as tribune, though this was not common. Head and shoulders above the other players stood Julius Caesar, a patrician who regarded glory as his birthright. In ancient Roman society it was represented by the patricians. Between 486 and 511, Clovis conquered a few provinces still ruled by Roman patricians. The intention was to recreate the environment of the patricians of ancient Rome and to celebrate agrarian, pastoral, Christian, and cultured life. Another very common form of interaction between socially disproportionate individuals was that between Roman patricians and their freedmen. adjective pəˈtrɪʃ(ə)npəˈtrɪʃən 1Belonging to or characteristic of the aristocracy. 贵族的 a proud, patrician face 一副自豪的贵族面容。 Example sentencesExamples His straight, patrician nose simply added to the resolute, aristocratic aura surrounding him. We see he's not a god or an angel, but an ordinary man - a handsome, patrician Englishman to be sure, but mortal. Dressed in a well-cut navy blazer, cashmere turtleneck and charcoal trousers, he cuts a patrician figure as he orders a pot of tea in the Merrion hotel. But that is a fault of the patrician government. The patrician elite who financed and directed the institution saw its mission as the eradication of class conflict. Access to furniture was more widespread among the ancient Greeks, whose patrician classes demanded a refined type of chair called the klismos. Venetian patrician society not only tolerated but flaunted courtesans, who star in some of the best Venetian paintings. Mary, smiling, reads a prayer-book, akin to the one she appears in, with patrician composure. The bourgeois or patrician oligarchies found it easier to defend their privileges. Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local gentry and merchants, weakening collective action and undermining the corporate, civic culture. And her patrician demeanour bespeaks her standing in the sport over which she has reigned supreme for a period spanning three Olympics. These are studies of sunlight on the shimmering white summer dresses worn by patrician women and children around the turn of the twentieth century. The Splendido, a former monastery and later a patrician villa, soon became what it is today: one of Europe's most exclusive, and expensive, hotels. With his patrician ancestry, going back to the Puritans on his mother's side, he acts as though he is born to rule. On this occasion, he spoke of the function and importance of art in Hamburg's public realm to an audience of patrician elite. We may remember that at about the same time over 70 per cent of patrician women in Venice were nuns. The latter was of patrician birth and a political hostess. As industrial employment declined, the luxury of patrician landowners living from landed income maintained the demand for urban services. This tone of slight snobbishness, a patrician aversion to vulgar middle-class prejudice, is typical of the book. Some were seated with patrician affability at windows with dramatic swagged curtains. Synonyms aristocratic, noble, noble-born, of noble birth, titled, blue-blooded, high-born, well born, upper-class, elite, landowning, landed, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth British county, upmarket informal upper-crust, top-drawer, {huntin', shootin', and fishin'} archaic gentle, of gentle birth 1.1North American Belonging to or characteristic of a long-established and wealthy family. 〈北美〉名门富家的成员 Example sentencesExamples If I had to draw a parallel I would say they are like the patrician families of the reconstruction American South, trying to maintain their historic dominance after the end of slavery. Perhaps it was from this socially secure family that Reynold received his patrician ease, his apparent freedom from self-doubt, and his refined aesthetic sense. Was last night as close as the upstart governor will ever get to beating the patrician Senator? In the late nineteenth century, patrician historians produced hundreds of books, prints, lectures, classes, and tours about an imagined colonial city known as Old New York. The major department stores, while one might be a bit trendier and another a bit more patrician, all sell pretty much the same stuff. In the 1860s a few patrician merchants' wives subscribed independently on guarantee lists of the German opera. New Englanders despised New Yorkers who reciprocated the sentiment, and neither felt much affinity for the patrician Virginians or the farmers of the Carolinas and Georgia. 1.2 Belonging to the nobility of ancient Rome. 古罗马贵族的 Example sentencesExamples In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron. Rising dowries also impinged on patrician men, forcing almost half of them to remain unmarried during the fifteenth century. To become consul, Coriolanus has to gain the support of both the patrician senate and the Roman people. Make time for Rome's patrician galleries - private collections of the great princes, in many cases still right in the family palace where they were first hung. A Roman woman of patrician dress and bearing stood in the doorway, accompanied by two soldiers draped in civilian clothes. She became the idol of patrician society of Rome. Wealthy plebeians were assimilated into the patrician class. Born in 100 BC of a leading patrician family, Caesar rose to be consul in 59 BC. This was the era of patrician history, when scholars followed the great classical historians in holding up to posterity examples of errors, failings, and laudable deeds. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French patricien, from Latin patricius 'having a noble father', from pater, patr- 'father'. plebeian from mid 16th century: This is based on Latin plebeius, from plebs, ‘the common people’, as opposed to the more aristocratic patricians who were the ‘fathers of their country’, getting their name from Latin pater ‘father’ (source of other words such as paternal (Late Middle English)). The same base is shared by plebiscite from the same period. Rhymes academician, addition, aesthetician (US esthetician), ambition, audition, beautician, clinician, coition, cosmetician, diagnostician, dialectician, dietitian, Domitian, edition, electrician, emission, fission, fruition, Hermitian, ignition, linguistician, logician, magician, mathematician, Mauritian, mechanician, metaphysician, mission, monition, mortician, munition, musician, obstetrician, omission, optician, paediatrician (US pediatrician), petition, Phoenician, physician, politician, position, rhetorician, sedition, statistician, suspicion, tactician, technician, theoretician, Titian, tuition, volition Definition of patrician in US English: patrician nounpəˈtriSHənpəˈtrɪʃən 1An aristocrat or nobleman. 贵族 Example sentencesExamples They tended to be quite popular with the plebeians, though the patricians were known to get very jealous. Is it Coriolanus, or instead those who surround him, the plebeians, the patricians? He brushed some imaginary lint off of his sleeve, and assumed the pose of a bored patrician. Long after the autumn of 1880, far more plebeians than patricians experienced the pain of this communal punishment. Well-to-do patricians were the usual patrons on the exclusive courses in England and America, partly because equipment was so expensive, but also due to the rigid caste system. Sharp divisions are established by law between patricians and plebeians. Ideology justifies the rule of each ruling class, whether as chieftains, patricians, landowners, or those with capital, the bourgeoisie. What are her obligations as the last of the patricians? In 1561 Francesco expanded on this concept by noting that young Venetian patricians were destined to mature into grave senators. Or that the patricians (like you) still think the plebeians didn't understand the treaty. Then he turned back to the rich young patricians who were all laughing at her expense. In 1981, he became the country's fourth prime minister, but the first commoner after a trio of blue-blooded patricians. Both patricians and guildmen sought to defend their position and, like the nobles, they tried to do so both by self-regulation and by privileges. But we do not have to go to such extremes - in either cost or category - to prove that patricians love posing as plebeians. During the year 1770 Charles Burney was travelling in Italy and when he was in Venice he wrote on 12 August that he attended a concert in the house of the patrician, Signor Grimani. But the bulk of it was sold off to the rich patricians who had made fortunes from war and provincial administration. The children in Chardin's paintings are not little patricians but youngsters from his personal circle of craftsmen and small traders. Power, he fastidiously believed, ought simply to be handed to patricians like himself. The churches, convents, and all the dwellings of the former patricians were in ruins. Now there, he thought, was the face and bearing of a true patrician. Synonyms aristocrat, grandee, noble, nobleman, noblewoman, lord, lady, peer, peeress, peer of the realm, titled man, titled person, titled woman, landowner 1.1North American A member of a long-established wealthy family. 〈北美〉名门富家的成员 Example sentencesExamples He's a wealthy patrician, but he does have an impressive record of military service. Unlike many Virginia patricians of his time, he was able both to live elegantly and to preserve his property. The patricians entrusted with Yale University's future knew it was time to swing into action. He has tried to break his image as a cold patrician from New England. Like so many other young British patricians, he was saved from becoming a complete emotional cripple by a tenderhearted nanny. 1.2 A member of a noble family or class in ancient Rome. （古罗马的）贵族 Example sentencesExamples A patrician could serve as tribune, though this was not common. Villa owners, that is, former Roman patricians, were forced to settle their slaves on their own estates. In ancient Roman society it was represented by the patricians. Montague has learned from Beckett; in both there is the iron resignation and sadness of a Roman patrician, a Cicero, or, better perhaps, a Seneca. Between 486 and 511, Clovis conquered a few provinces still ruled by Roman patricians. Indeed, the celebrated ancient chronicler Plinius wrote: In Istra, the Roman patricians feel like gods! The intention was to recreate the environment of the patricians of ancient Rome and to celebrate agrarian, pastoral, Christian, and cultured life. Between 500 and 300 B.C., there developed within the body of the citizenry, a division between two social groups or classes: patricians and plebeians. Still others sold their votes to wealthy patricians, thus giving up one of the key features of their citizenship. Another very common form of interaction between socially disproportionate individuals was that between Roman patricians and their freedmen. A Roman patrician's pride and joy was his vegetables. The Romans also gave us the expression ‘plebs’, since Roman citizens were categorised either as patricians or plebeians. This was established early in the conflict between patricians and plebeians. Over Roman armour, he wears, strangely, the robe of a quattrocento patrician, frequently used in depictions of Florentine poets and men of letters. Coriolanus charts the destructive contest between a vain aristocratic soldier and the self-seeking patricians who claim to represent the masses. Head and shoulders above the other players stood Julius Caesar, a patrician who regarded glory as his birthright. Oppressed, as they thought, by the patricians, the plebeians in a body walked out of Rome and set themselves up on a neighbouring hill. adjectivepəˈtriSHənpəˈtrɪʃən 1Belonging to or characteristic of the aristocracy. 贵族的 a proud, patrician face 一副自豪的贵族面容。 Example sentencesExamples And her patrician demeanour bespeaks her standing in the sport over which she has reigned supreme for a period spanning three Olympics. This tone of slight snobbishness, a patrician aversion to vulgar middle-class prejudice, is typical of the book. Venetian patrician society not only tolerated but flaunted courtesans, who star in some of the best Venetian paintings. As industrial employment declined, the luxury of patrician landowners living from landed income maintained the demand for urban services. The latter was of patrician birth and a political hostess. The patrician elite who financed and directed the institution saw its mission as the eradication of class conflict. The Splendido, a former monastery and later a patrician villa, soon became what it is today: one of Europe's most exclusive, and expensive, hotels. These are studies of sunlight on the shimmering white summer dresses worn by patrician women and children around the turn of the twentieth century. Mary, smiling, reads a prayer-book, akin to the one she appears in, with patrician composure. With his patrician ancestry, going back to the Puritans on his mother's side, he acts as though he is born to rule. Some were seated with patrician affability at windows with dramatic swagged curtains. On this occasion, he spoke of the function and importance of art in Hamburg's public realm to an audience of patrician elite. We may remember that at about the same time over 70 per cent of patrician women in Venice were nuns. We see he's not a god or an angel, but an ordinary man - a handsome, patrician Englishman to be sure, but mortal. Dressed in a well-cut navy blazer, cashmere turtleneck and charcoal trousers, he cuts a patrician figure as he orders a pot of tea in the Merrion hotel. The bourgeois or patrician oligarchies found it easier to defend their privileges. Municipal reform might well replace a patrician oligarchy of local gentry and merchants, weakening collective action and undermining the corporate, civic culture. Access to furniture was more widespread among the ancient Greeks, whose patrician classes demanded a refined type of chair called the klismos. But that is a fault of the patrician government. His straight, patrician nose simply added to the resolute, aristocratic aura surrounding him. Synonyms aristocratic, noble, noble-born, of noble birth, titled, blue-blooded, high-born, well born, upper-class, elite, landowning, landed, born with a silver spoon in one's mouth 1.1North American Belonging to or characteristic of a long-established and wealthy family. 〈北美〉名门富家的成员 Example sentencesExamples In the late nineteenth century, patrician historians produced hundreds of books, prints, lectures, classes, and tours about an imagined colonial city known as Old New York. The major department stores, while one might be a bit trendier and another a bit more patrician, all sell pretty much the same stuff. Was last night as close as the upstart governor will ever get to beating the patrician Senator? New Englanders despised New Yorkers who reciprocated the sentiment, and neither felt much affinity for the patrician Virginians or the farmers of the Carolinas and Georgia. If I had to draw a parallel I would say they are like the patrician families of the reconstruction American South, trying to maintain their historic dominance after the end of slavery. Perhaps it was from this socially secure family that Reynold received his patrician ease, his apparent freedom from self-doubt, and his refined aesthetic sense. In the 1860s a few patrician merchants' wives subscribed independently on guarantee lists of the German opera. 1.2 Belonging to the nobility of ancient Rome. 古罗马贵族的 Example sentencesExamples A Roman woman of patrician dress and bearing stood in the doorway, accompanied by two soldiers draped in civilian clothes. Wealthy plebeians were assimilated into the patrician class. Rising dowries also impinged on patrician men, forcing almost half of them to remain unmarried during the fifteenth century. Born in 100 BC of a leading patrician family, Caesar rose to be consul in 59 BC. In ancient Rome clients were plebeians who were bound in a subservient relationship with their patrician patron. Make time for Rome's patrician galleries - private collections of the great princes, in many cases still right in the family palace where they were first hung. She became the idol of patrician society of Rome. This was the era of patrician history, when scholars followed the great classical historians in holding up to posterity examples of errors, failings, and laudable deeds. To become consul, Coriolanus has to gain the support of both the patrician senate and the Roman people. Origin Late Middle English: from Old French patricien, from Latin patricius ‘having a noble father’, from pater, patr- ‘father’.
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