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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
Brahman, archduke, aristocrat, aristocratic, armiger, baron, baronet, blue blood, chivalrous, count, daimio, ducal, duke, earl, esquire, exalted, genteel, gentle, gentleman, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, grand duke, grandee, hidalgo, high, kinglike, kingly, knightly, lace-curtain, ladylike, laird, landgrave, lord, lordling, magnate, magnifico, margrave, marquis, noble, nobleman, of gentle blood, of rank, optimate, palsgrave, peer, princelike, princely, queenlike, queenly, quite the lady, seigneur, seignior, silk-stocking, squire, swell, thoroughbred, titled, upper-cruster, viscount, waldgrave
Dictionary Results for patrician:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
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]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, n. [L. patricius: cf. F. patricien.]
   1. (Rom. Antiq.) Originally, a member of any of the families
      constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman
      citizens, before the development of the plebeian order;
      later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege
      conferred, belonged to the nobility.
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   2. A person of high birth; a nobleman.
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   3. One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one
      versed in patristic lore. [R.] --Colridge.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Patrician \Pa*tri"cian\, a. [L. patricius, fr. patres fathers or
   senators, pl. of pater: cf. F. patricien. See Paternal.]
   1. (Rom. Antiq.) Of or pertaining to the Roman patres
      (fathers) or senators, or patricians.
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   2. Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high
      birth; noble; not plebeian.
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            Born in the patrician file of society. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.
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            His horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood.
                                                  --Addison.
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