patrician.

1. Associated with a socially privileged class or displaying its refined bearing.

2. A member of an aristocratic or socially privileged class, especially the hereditary elite of ancient Rome.

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Words that belong together

• patrician manner
• patrician family

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Her patrician manner impressed the delegation.

The patrician family controlled the old estate.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary. Forms: Comparative more patrician; superlative most patrician where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.