(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.
Scholar
Definition:
(n.) One who attends a school; one who learns of a teacher; one under the tuition of a preceptor; a pupil; a disciple; a learner; a student.
(n.) One engaged in the pursuits of learning; a learned person; one versed in any branch, or in many branches, of knowledge; a person of high literary or scientific attainments; a savant.
(n.) A man of books.
(n.) In English universities, an undergraduate who belongs to the foundation of a college, and receives support in part from its revenues.
Example Sentences:
(1) However the imagery is more complex, because scholars believe it also relates to another cherished pre-Raphaelite Arthurian legend, Sir Degrevaunt who married his mortal enemy's daughter.
(2) Now is the time to rally behind him and show a solid front to Iran and the world.” Political scientists call this the “rally round the flag effect”, and there are two schools of thought for why it happens, according to the scholars Marc J Hetherington and Michael Nelson.
(3) This is why legal scholars are repeatedly reminding us that until our constitution is ratified, the EU will continue to lack the political debate that must be at the centre of any mature democracy.
(4) Zhang Lifan, an independent scholar, told the Associated Press that the use of offshore holdings by those with ties to officials gave a strong impression of privilege and impunity.
(5) The development of knowledge for nursing poses an exciting, scholarly adventure for the profession's scientists.
(6) Unsurprisingly, one of the three lonely references at the end of O'Reilly's essay is to a 2012 speech entitled " Regulation: Looking Backward, Looking Forward" by Cass Sunstein , the prominent American legal scholar who is the chief theorist of the nudging state.
(7) For the many students who amble past it every day, it’s easily missed; placed rather innocuously next to the bridge that joins Scholar’s Piece to the rest of the college.
(8) Considerable scholarly exertion has gone into describing the flaws in each count.
(9) But it accused South Park of having mocked the prophet, and cited Islamic scholars who ruled that "whoever curses the messenger of Allah must be killed".
(10) A statement from al-Shabaab on Monday said the latest attack – the deadliest since Westgate – was revenge for the "Kenyan government's brutal oppression of Muslims in Kenya through coercion, intimidation and extrajudicial killings of Muslim scholars".
(11) The fascination of American and British scholars with each other's health care systems is a case study of the risks and benefits of the comparative approach.
(12) • Mohamed Elshahed is a Cairo-based scholar completing his PhD with the Middle East department of NYU.
(13) Two student groups, Scholarism, and the Hong Kong Federation of Students, announced they would "occupy" parts of central Hong Kong after the protest ended , despite promises by police to take "decisive action" if crowds did not disperse by early Wednesday morning.
(14) The Shakespearian critic and scholar, Nicholas Brooke, who had taught Sage at Durham, was also there, as was the writer, Jonathan Raban.
(15) These are very accomplished people and they’ve never seen so much red ink on their copy.” And yet Ademo says he would welcome more submissions from scholars.
(16) President Obama should use his meeting to announce an end to the US military aid, which is helping Mexico’s military, federal police and other security forces continue killing and disappearing innocents with our tax dollars – and with impunity,” said activist Roberto Lovato, a visiting scholar at the UC Berkeley Center for Latino Policy Research, and one of the organisers of the #UStired2 campaign, which has organised the demonstrations.
(17) Can't understand wilful&total destruction of EU expertise, with Cunliffe,Ellam&Scholar also out of loop.
(18) In a study that took into account the opportunity costs for jail time and the cost of stolen goods, scholars found that crime cost Uruguay about $319m (£209m) a year.
(19) Authorities arrested scores of activists, including the prominent legal scholar Xu Zhiyong .
(20) In his illuminating and judicious scholarly study of the region, Frontline Ukraine: Crisis in the Borderlands, Richard Sakwa writes – all too plausibly – that the “Russo-Georgian war of August 2008 was in effect the first of the ‘wars to stop Nato enlargement’; the Ukraine crisis of 2014 is the second.