Word Meaning

Meaning of "patron" and the crossword clue

- a person who gives support to artists
- Customer
- Normal or customer
- One who protects two little boys
- Protector or benefactor
- Sponsor
- One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
- A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.
- A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.
- An advocate or pleader.
- One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
- One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
- A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.
- See Padrone, 2.
- To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.
- Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.