patron

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.

   “patron of my life and liberty”

2. isim A guardian or intercessor; synonym of patron saint.

   “St. Joseph is the patron of many different places.”

3. isim An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
4. isim A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.

   “This car park is for patrons only.”

5. isim A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.
6. isim One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
7. isim A padrone.
8. isim A property owner, a landlord, a master. (Compare patroon.)

   “Half-a-dozen little boys carried it to the inn, where I had to explain to the patron, in my best Spanish, that we wanted a carriage to go to the baths, seven leagues off.”

9. fiil To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.

   “a good cause needs not to be patroned by passion”

10. fiil To treat as a patron.