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What does patron mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word patron? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. One who protects or supports; a defender.
  2. A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
  3. A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works.
  4. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
  5. (historical, Roman antiquity) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights over him.
  6. An advocate or pleader.
  7. (Britain, ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
  8. (nautical) A padrone.
  9. Synonym of patron saint.
Verb
  1. (obsolete) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.
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