Matron vs Patron - What's the difference?
matron | patron |
A mature woman; a wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
*:your wives, your daughters, your matrons , and your maids
*(Thomas Fuller) (1606-1661)
*:grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron ; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
A housekeeper; especially, a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public institution; a head nurse in a hospital.
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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 matron and patron
is that matron is a mature woman; a wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners while patron is one who protects or supports; a defender.As a verb patron is
to be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.matron
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)patron
English
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.