Sanakirja.org

Määritelmät

Substantiivit

1. One who protects or supports; a defender.
2. A regular customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.
3. A property owner who hires a contractor for construction works.
4. An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.
5. (historical, Roman antiquity) A master who had freed his slave but still retained some paternal rights over him.
6. An advocate or pleader.
7. (UK, ecclestiastical) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
8. (nautical) A padrone.

Verbit

1. (obsolete) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.