n.[C]

1. 贊助者，資助者
   He was lucky to have found a millionaire patron.

   他有幸找到了一位百萬富翁贊助人。

2. 主顧（尤指老顧客）
   We have a special offer for our regular patrons.

   我們給予老顧客特別的優惠。

3. 庇護人，保護人
4. （土地，職業等的）守護神
5. （英國國教中）有聖職授與權的人
6. （旅店等的）老板
   We were effusively welcomed by the patron and his wife.

   我們受到老板和他妻子的熱忱歡迎。

n.

1. a person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, cause, etc.
   ▸a distinguished person who takes an honorary position in a charity.
2. a customer of a restaurant, hotel, etc., especially a regular one.
3. Brit., chiefly historical a person or institution with the right to grant a benefice to a member of the clergy.
4. (in ancient Rome) a patrician in relation to a client.
   ▸the former owner of a freed slave.