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patrician

British pronunciation/pætɹˈɪʃən/
American pronunciation/pəˈtɹɪʃən/
Patrician
[NOUN]
1

a person belonging to the highest social class or aristocracy in certain societies

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2

a person of refined upbringing and manners

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patrician
[ADJECTIVE]
1

belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

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2

befitting a person of noble origin

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Examples
1It's about patrician power.
2Almost all of these magistrates and Senators in the early republic were of the Patrician nobility.
3Your senate was chosen from among the Patrician class.
4Cincinnatus was a patrician, one of those fathers of Rome, Republican Rome.
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