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Patron vs Proprietor - What's the difference?

patron | proprietor |

As nouns the difference between patron and proprietor

is that patron is one who protects or supports; a defender while proprietor is an owner.

As a verb patron

is to be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.

patron

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • One who protects or supports; a defender.
  • * Shakespeare
  • patron of my life and liberty
  • * Spenser
  • the patron of true holiness
  • A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
  • This car park is for patrons only.
  • 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
  • Let him who works the client wrong / Beware the patron' s ire.
  • (UK, ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
  • (nautical) A padrone.
  • Derived terms

    * patronage * patroness * patronize, patronise *patron saint

    See also

    * sponsor

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.
  • (Sir Thomas Browne)

    Anagrams

    * ----

    proprietor

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An owner.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-10, volume=408, issue=8848, magazine=(The Economist), author=Lexington
  • , title= Keeping the mighty honest , passage=The [Washington] Post's proprietor through those turbulent [Watergate] days, Katharine Graham, held a double place in Washington’s hierarchy: at once regal Georgetown hostess and scrappy newshound, ready to hold the establishment to account. That is a very American position. British journalists shun complete respectability, feeling a duty to be ready to savage the mighty, or rummage through their bins.}}
  • A sole owner of an unincorporated business, also called a sole proprietor.
  • One of the owners of an unincorporated business, a partner.
  • (history) One or more persons to whom a colonial territory is assigned, like a fief, including its administration.
  • Derived terms

    * Lord proprietor * proprietorship * sole proprietor

    Hypernyms

    * entrepreneur

    Coordinate terms

    * partner

    See also

    * appropriate * corporation * proper * property ----