PATRON

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Traducere în limba română

patron substantiv

1. protector, ocrotitor, patron, şef.

2. (rel.) patron.

3. (com.) client permanent.

4. vizitator (al unui teatru).

5. (bis.) cel care are dreptul de a conferi o dregătorie.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“As his patron, Sir Lothian, you should direct the sponge to be thrown up.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I had a stronger claim even than you could have. You were his patron; I was his mother.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

IT was at the end of my first week in London that my uncle gave a supper to the fancy, as was usual for gentlemen of that time if they wished to figure before the public as Corinthians and patrons of sport.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“She’s got my promise, and she holds me to it! There was never a better or more hard-working wife, but she ain’t what you’d call a patron of sport, and that’s a fact.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The fact was infinitely astonishing to him—and I recognized first the unusual quality of wonder and then the man—it was the late patron of Gatsby's library.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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