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Meaning of patrician

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  patrician
      adj 1: befitting a person of noble origin; "a patrician nose"
      2: belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or
         aristocracy; "an aristocratic family"; "aristocratic
         Bostonians"; "aristocratic government"; "a blue family";
         "blue blood"; "the blue-blooded aristocracy"; "of gentle
         blood"; "patrician landholders of the American South";
         "aristocratic bearing"; "aristocratic features"; "patrician
         tastes" [syn: {aristocratic}, {aristocratical}, {blue},
         {blue-blooded}, {gentle}, {patrician}]
      n 1: a person of refined upbringing and manners
      2: a member of the aristocracy [syn: {aristocrat}, {blue blood},
         {patrician}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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