- patron
- n1. customer, client, subscriber, prospect; regular, habitue1, frequenter, patronizer; shopper, purchaser, buyer, Chiefly Law. vendee, marketer; spectator, audience, theatergoer, goer; attender, attendant, visitor.2. patroness, sponsor, promoter, backer, booster, fi-nancer, angel; benefactor, benefactress, Maecenas, philanthropist, Rockefeller; helper, abettor, succorer; advocate, seconder, favorer, upholder, exponent, supporter, partisan; maintainer, sustainer, mainstay; well-wisher, encourager, sympathizer, friend, befriender; guardian, guardian angel, good fairy; friend at court, connection, in; employer, boss, master, Brit. Inf. governor, lord and master, patriarch, keeper; founder, saint.
A Note on the Style of the synonym finder. 2014.