(n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
(n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.
Example Sentences:
(1) He was flanked by a triumvirate of aides, the excitable and matronly chief usher, a man at a computer screen who looked like a bedraggled version of Prince William, and a shaven-headed man who did absolutely nothing all day except fall asleep midway through the morning session.
(2) By the age of 25 she was a head OT; four years later she took on her first general management role as a hospital matron.
(3) Only a minority of physicians opposed the introduction of the English model of nursing care, with the matron who had the power of organizing the hospital.
(4) It was using the charity to help transport patients who were fit enough to leave A&E, but the Red Cross was not providing healthcare to patients, the hospital’s duty matron said.
(5) Although ostensibly instituted to render care to "female paupers," the matronized nursing service was readily expanded, and subsequently delivered care to the entire, predominantly indigent patient population.
(6) And look over there; surely it can’t be, but yes, my word: stern old Mr Sillars getting all frisky with Ms May, the boarding school matron, and her kitten heels.
(7) Richard Brothwell, Wakefield's community heart failure matron, is one of the professionals trialling the system.
(8) In one short visit, using questionnaires to the matron, cook and the residents and a check-list of general observations, the degree of risk, high, moderate or low, can be assessed.
(9) 98 Hospices in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland of 111 that had a named matron or senior nurse, including 17 funded by NHS and 81 independent units.
(10) Along with Shields and Brinkley, other names who have portrayed Chicago's fictional showgirl Roxie Hart include Ugly Betty's America Ferrera, Coronation Street's Jill Halfpenny and presenter Denise Van Outen, while Kelly Osbourne and the EastEnders actor Anita Dobson are among those who have played the hard-as-nails prison matron Mama Morton.
(11) The incidental pleasures in Fading Gigolo start with its sweet and slightly risible premise: John Turturro – a florist named Fioravante – has the sexual magic touch for the lonely, libidinous matrons of the One Percent.
(12) "But having said that, we are working with community matrons and they could do it for you.
(13) While prosecuting as witches those women careproviders who were matrons and sages, the Church instituted consecrated women to provide what she expected from care-giving, and had them recognized as the socialized model of care-providers.
(14) Our view of the NHS and of the nursing role is still based on the traditional picture of matrons in white caps, but we need to look at the evidence and rethink who is best placed to deliver care of a high quality, and how to ensure that this also represents value for money.
(15) One minute the reception at Private Eye 's chaotic Soho office is quiet, and a matronly receptionist is making me a cup of coffee.
(16) Sothcott said the character of Matron, played by Hattie Jacques in 1967’s similarly titled Carry On Doctor and 1969’s Carry On Again Doctor, would now be portrayed as a “butch gay” man.
(17) At their wedding in Acapulco in 1957, Mike's lifelong friend, the crooner Eddie Fisher, was best man, and Eddie's wife, Debbie Reynolds, was the matron of honour.
(18) Lectures on malignant melanoma, hazards of sunburns in childhood, and the importance of sun awareness were arranged for the nursery school matrons in the preschool sector.
(19) Although matrons (nursing administrators) who have graduated from the College are capable of performing special tasks to ensure quality care, they do not have the corresponding authority and recognition.
(20) We are not doing them a favour by serving them, they are doing us a favour by giving us an opportunity to do so.” Inside that hospital Henley spoke to a matron, Nadine Opiniano, who told him: “I do think some people here don’t appreciate what the NHS means.
Patron
Definition:
(n.) See Padrone, 2.
(v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.
(n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.
(n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.
(n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.
(n.) An advocate or pleader.
(n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.
(n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.
(n.) A guardian saint. -- called also patron saint.
(a.) Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.
Example Sentences:
(1) In one of the best of the recent ones ( Shakespeare Unbound , 2007) René Weis has a cool and illuminatingly open-minded analysis of whether the earlier sonnets (including 20) are directed at the young and glamorous Earl of Southampton, the poet’s patron and possible love object.
(2) The new slogan “for the thirsty” seems to lionise those who try different things: great for enticing new patrons but do you really want your loyal consumer base branching out beyond their usual pint?
(3) He has set up a "trade and growth" board for Scotland and will soon lead Scotland's "largest ever trade delegation to Brazil", a visit which will take place on St Andrew's Day, the patron saints day beloved by the nationalists.
(4) Immediately after the verdicts two Surrey-based charities, Shooting Star Chase and the Woking & Sam Beare Hospices, said that Clifford would no longer be their patron.
(5) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Charlie Webster explains her decision to quit as patron of Sheffield United She said: “At no point have Sheffield United acknowledged the extremity of his crime.
(6) In view of this, Hufeland has become a kind of 'patron saint' to modern chronobiologists.
(7) The bill should authorize stiff fines for unruly dog behavior – to include noise violations from sustained barking and lunging – and misdemeanor criminal penalties for menacing waitstaff and patrons.
(8) I went to the club twice and moved around, taking my photos without interacting much with any of the patrons,” McMullan recalled.
(9) He was the patron of an alternative medicine charity run by Dr Patrick Pietroni, who had a GP practice in the basement of Marylebone Church.
(10) If there is a patron saint of shorts in this country, then it is undoubtedly the Chungmeister, with her beloved denim hotpants and collection of lacy and smart city shorts.
(11) A former showgirl from the gravel pits of Wraysbury in Berkshire, Keeler was just 19 and was staying on the estate with her friend, patron and (some said) pimp, the society osteopath Stephen Ward.
(12) In the African American neighborhood south of the Midway, Gates gutted a string of condemned buildings and then turned them into sculpture, covertly turning his collectors into patrons of urban renewal .
(13) Litvinenko also received a regular stipend from the oligarch Boris Berezovsky , his friend and patron, who had arranged his escape from Russia in October 2000.
(14) Kabila's father, Laurent Kabila, had seized power with Rwandan help in 1997 only to then go to war with his former patrons and die by an assassin's bullet a little over three years later.
(15) They are thus funded or closed from season to season depending on the generosity of surrounding mines, the success of local art centres, and the sympathy of wealthy patrons.
(16) But we will support a secure and united Iraq as a partner, and never as a patron.
(17) He wants to style himself as patron of the most ambitious urban overhaul since Baron Haussmann dramatically changed the face of Paris in the mid-19th century when he carved out wide boulevards and the Champs Elysée.
(18) A spokesman for Prince Charles said: “The red squirrel is a most cherished and iconic national species, and, as patron of the Red Squirrel Survival Trust, the Prince of Wales keenly supports all efforts to conserve and promote their diminishing numbers.
(19) She gives the example of the Digismart scheme , of which she is a patron, which uses digital tools to mentor struggling school children, and has been introduced at 500 schools.
(20) Unlike the multi-racial community living and working in Woodstock , Cape Town’s oldest suburb, the vast majority of the Old Biscuit Mill’s patrons are white, while many of those serving in the food market and other businesses are black, as are the car guards and beggars outside.