patrician

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of PATRICIAN

a man or woman of high birth or social position <the Southern patricians who once resided in these stately plantation homes>

Synonyms aristocrat, blue blood, gentle, noble, patrician

Related Words socialite, swell; magnate, magnifico, mogul, nabob; gentlefolk (also gentlefolks)

Near Antonyms canaille, commoner, pleb, plebeian, proletarian, roturier; boor, fellah, peasant, peon

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