Patron vs Student - What's the difference?
patron | student |
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.
A person who studies a particular academic subject.
(figuratively) A person seriously devoted to some subject, whether academic or not.
A person enrolled at a university.
(chiefly, North America) A schoolchild.
As nouns the difference between patron and student
is that patron is owner, boss while student is student.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.
Derived terms
* patronage * patroness * patronize, patronise *patron saintSee also
* sponsorAnagrams
* ----student
English
(wikipedia student)Noun
(en noun)- A student of philosophy.
- He is a student of life.
- The students were out raising funds for rag week.