Heard: In a television episode description.
Sentence: A high-profile real-estate agent is accused of killing his patrician wife, but Tom (Kerr Smith) trusts his client’s story that her death was an accident.
Definition:
| 1. |
a person of noble or high rank; aristocrat. |
| 2. |
a person of very good background, education, and refinement. |
| 3. |
a member of the original senatorial aristocracy in ancient Rome. |
| 4. |
(under the later Roman and Byzantine empires) a title or dignity conferred by the emperor. |
| 5. |
a member of a hereditary ruling class in certain medieval German, Swiss, and Italian free cities. |
–adjective
| 6. |
of high social rank or noble family; aristocratic. |
| 7. |
befitting or characteristic of persons of very good background, education, and refinement: patrician tastes. |
| 8. |
of or belonging to the patrician families of ancient Rome. |
