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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--patrician This week's theme: words to describe people. patrician (puh-TRISH-uhn) noun A person of high social rank, good background, etc.; an aristocrat. [From Latin patricius (having a noble father), from pater (father).] Today's word in Visual Thesaurus. -Anu Garg (words at wordsmith.org) "The exciting new tie width even spawned a musical genre (probably invented by some dull, pipe-smoking patrician at Rolling Stone Magazine)." Simon Mills; The Day Ties Went Size Zero; The Guardian (London, UK); Oct 26, 2007. X-Bonus He had the rare quality of not only loving but respecting childhood -- its innocence, its keen sense of justice, its passionate and yet sensitive affections. -Dinah Maria Mulock Craik, novelist and poet (1826-1887)

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