Patrician vs Grandee - What's the difference?
patrician | grandee | Related terms |
(antiquity) 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 senior class of Romans, who, with certain property, had by right a seat in the Roman Senate.
A person of high birth; a nobleman.
One familiar with the works of the Christian Fathers; one versed in patristic lore or life.
Of or pertaining to the Roman patres (fathers) or senators, or patricians.
Of, pertaining to, or appropriate to, a person of high birth; noble; not plebeian.
* Sir Walter Scott
* Addison
Patrician is a related term of grandee.
As an adjective patrician
is of or relating to (saint patrick).As a noun grandee is
a person of high rank.patrician
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Alternative forms
* patritian (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)Adjective
(en adjective)- born in the patrician file of society
- his horse's hoofs wet with patrician blood
