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patrons

/pey-truhn/US // ˈpeɪ trən //UK // (ˈpeɪtrən) //

赞助人,顾客,赞助者,父老乡亲

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.
    • : 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.
    • : a person whose support or protection is solicited or acknowledged by the dedication of a book or other work.
    • : patron saint.
    • : Roman History. the protector of a dependent or client, often the former master of a freedman still retaining certain rights over him.
    • : Ecclesiastical. a person who has the right of presenting a member of the clergy to a benefice.

Synonyms & Antonyms

nounperson who supports a cause

Examples

  • In that regard, Miami will be able to take advantage of its warm weather and direct patrons with food or beverages to outdoor areas.

  • “So, we first and foremost wanted to keep our staff, our neighbors, and our patrons safe,” he said.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • The real test, at that point, will be convincing patrons it’s safe to come back to the gym.

  • I hardly spoke to every patron, but there may have been some validity to his assessment.

  • The artist came down and stood beside his patron to assess things.

  • Michelangelo tricked his patron about the David, but sometimes he was forcibly reminded who paid the bills.

  • He was a scion of immense wealth, a civil rights activist, and an art collector and patron.

  • At the time, last March, the then-46-year-old Omidyar was being heralded as a patron saint of the financially beleaguered newsbiz.

  • It was evident to the German doctor that his patron looked forward to his great-niece's visit with pleasure.

  • Owing to the death of Popham, their chief patron, and other misfortunes, the colonists returned to England in 1608.

  • Conjecture, lost in the mazy distance, gladly lays hold of something substantial in the shape of snuff's first royal patron.

  • He was a politic monarch, the patron of men of letters, and an excellent author himself.

  • Nor can a telephone company legally charge a higher rental for a telephone to a telegraph company than to any other patron.