<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>a person who is a customer, client, or paying guest, especially a regular one, of a store, hotel, or the like.</li><li>a person who supports with money, gifts, efforts, or endorsement an artist, writer, museum, cause, charity, institution, special event, or the like: a patron of the arts; patrons of the annual Democratic dance.</li><li>a person whose support or protection is solicited or acknowledged by the dedication of a book or other work.</li><li>patron saint.</li><li>Roman History: the protector of a dependent or client, often the former master of a freedman still retaining certain rights over him.</li><li>Ecclesiastical: a person who has the right of presenting a member of the clergy to a benefice.</li></ul>