patrician

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}]
    

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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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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60 Moby Thesaurus words for "patrician":
      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