English to Afrikaans Meaning of patrician - patriciërswoning

Patrician :

patriciërswoning

noun

aristokraat, patriciërswoning, Babu

adjective

aristokratiese, edele, patriciërswoning, hoë, adellike, blou, ware geteel, pragtige, magtige, groot, ruim, waardige, gerespekteerde, vooraanstaande

Patrician :: patriciërswoningPatricians :: patrisiërs

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Definitions of patrician in English

Noun(1) a person of refined upbringing and manners(2) a member of the aristocracy
Adjective(1) befitting a person of noble origin(2) belonging to or characteristic of the nobility or aristocracy

Examples of patrician in English

(1) These are studies of sunlight on the shimmering white summer dresses worn by patrician women and children around the turn of the twentieth century.(2) She became the idol of patrician society of Rome.(3) He has tried to break his image as a cold patrician from New England.(4) A Roman patrician 's pride and joy was his vegetables.(5) We see he's not a god or an angel, but an ordinary man - a handsome, patrician Englishman to be sure, but mortal.(6) And her patrician demeanour bespeaks her standing in the sport over which she has reigned supreme for a period spanning three Olympics.(7) We may remember that at about the same time over 70 per cent of patrician women in Venice were nuns.(8) 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.(9) Rising dowries also impinged on patrician men, forcing almost half of them to remain unmarried during the fifteenth century.(10) As industrial employment declined, the luxury of patrician landowners living from landed income maintained the demand for urban services.(11) 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.(12) Venetian patrician society not only tolerated but flaunted courtesans, who star in some of the best Venetian paintings.(13) Mary, smiling, reads a prayer-book, akin to the one she appears in, with patrician composure.(14) In the 1860s a few patrician merchants' wives subscribed independently on guarantee lists of the German opera.(15) A Roman woman of patrician dress and bearing stood in the doorway, accompanied by two soldiers draped in civilian clothes.(16) To become consul, Coriolanus has to gain the support of both the patrician senate and the Roman people.

(1) patio door ::

patio deure

(2) patio doors ::

patio deure

Synonyms

Adjective

1. aristocratic ::

aristokratiese

2. noble ::

edele

3. titled ::

getiteld

4. blue-blooded ::

blou-bloedige

5. high-born ::

hoë-gebore

6. upper-class ::

bo-klas

8. upper-crust ::

boonste kors

9. gentle ::

sagte

Noun

10. aristocrat ::

aristokraat

11. grandee ::

grandee

12. noble ::

edele

13. nobleman ::

edelman

14. noblewoman ::

edelvrou

15. lord ::

Here

16. lady ::

dame

17. peer ::

eweknie

18. peeress ::

vrou van edelman

19. blue blood ::

blou bloed

Different Forms

patrician, patricians

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