- 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.
- the protector of a dependent or client, often the former master of a freedman still retaining certain rights over him.
- a person who has the right of presenting a member of the clergy to a benefice.
- (in Mexico and the southwestern U.S.) a boss; employer.
- a person, esp a man, who sponsors or aids artists, charities, etc; protector or benefactor
- a customer of a shop, hotel, etc, esp a regular one
- See patron saint
- (in ancient Rome) the protector of a dependant or client, often the former master of a freedman still retaining certain rights over him
- a person or body having the right to present a clergyman to a benefice
- a man, who owns or manages a hotel, restaurant, or bar
- Irish a variant spelling of pattern 2
