Noun
- 1. patrician, adult, grownup
- usage: a person of refined upbringing and manners
- 2. aristocrat, blue blood, patrician, leader
- usage: a member of the aristocracy
Adjective
- 1. patrician, refined (vs. unrefined)
- usage: befitting a person of noble origin; "a patrician nose"
- 2. aristocratic, aristocratical, blue, blue-blooded, gentle, patrician, noble (vs. lowborn)
- usage: 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"
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