Defender vs Patron - What's the difference?
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Someone who defends people or property.
(legal) A lawyer who represents defendants.
A fighter who repels an attack.
(sports) One of the players whose primary task is to prevent the opposition from scoring.
One who protects or supports; a defender.
* Shakespeare
* Spenser
A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works.
An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
(historical, Roman antiquity) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights over him.
An advocate or pleader.
* Macaulay
(UK, ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
(nautical) A padrone.
As nouns the difference between defender and patron
is that defender is someone who defends people or property while patron is one who protects or supports; a defender.As a verb patron is
to be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.defender
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Alternative forms
* defendor (obsolete) * defendour (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)patron
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Noun
(en noun)- patron of my life and liberty
- the patron of true holiness
- This car park is for patrons only.
- Let him who works the client wrong / Beware the patron' s ire.