patron / ˈpeɪ trən /

💦中学词汇赞助人资助人主顾资助者

patron 的定义

n. 名词 noun
  1. a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
  2. a person who supports with money, gifts, efforts, or endorsement an artist, writer, museum, cause, charity, institution, special event, or the like: a patron of the arts; patrons of the annual Democratic dance.
  3. a person whose support or protection is solicited or acknowledged by the dedication of a book or other work.
  4. patron saint.
  5. Roman History. the protector of a dependent or client, often the former master of a freedman still retaining certain rights over him.
  6. Ecclesiastical. a person who has the right of presenting a member of the clergy to a benefice.

patron 近义词

n. 名词 noun

person who supports a cause

n. 名词 noun

person who does business at establishment

更多patron例句

  1. In that regard, Miami will be able to take advantage of its warm weather and direct patrons with food or beverages to outdoor areas.
  2. “So, we first and foremost wanted to keep our staff, our neighbors, and our patrons safe,” he said.
  3. Much depends on the local restrictions in place, but the center could have 50 donors indoors and up to a few hundred outside, with testing and other protocols in place to assure artist and patron safety.
  4. Earlier this fall, many of the nation’s restaurants opened their doors to patrons to eat inside, especially as the weather turned cold in places.
  5. The real test, at that point, will be convincing patrons it’s safe to come back to the gym.
  6. I hardly spoke to every patron, but there may have been some validity to his assessment.
  7. The artist came down and stood beside his patron to assess things.
  8. Michelangelo tricked his patron about the David, but sometimes he was forcibly reminded who paid the bills.
  9. He was a scion of immense wealth, a civil rights activist, and an art collector and patron.
  10. At the time, last March, the then-46-year-old Omidyar was being heralded as a patron saint of the financially beleaguered newsbiz.
  11. It was evident to the German doctor that his patron looked forward to his great-niece's visit with pleasure.
  12. Owing to the death of Popham, their chief patron, and other misfortunes, the colonists returned to England in 1608.
  13. Conjecture, lost in the mazy distance, gladly lays hold of something substantial in the shape of snuff's first royal patron.
  14. He was a politic monarch, the patron of men of letters, and an excellent author himself.
  15. Nor can a telephone company legally charge a higher rental for a telephone to a telegraph company than to any other patron.