(1):

(a.) Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

(2):

(n.) One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.

(3):

(n.) A man of distinction under whose protection another person placed himself.

(4):

(n.) An advocate or pleader.

(5):

(v. t.) To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.

(6):

(n.) One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.

(7):

(n.) See Padrone, 2.

(8):

(n.) One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

(9):

(n.) A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.

(10):

(n.) A guardian saint. - called also patron saint.