n.[C]

1. 赞助者，资助者
   He was lucky to have found a millionaire patron.

   他有幸找到了一位百万富翁赞助人。

2. 主顾（尤指老顾客）
   We have a special offer for our regular patrons.

   我们给予老顾客特别的优惠。

3. 庇护人，保护人
4. （土地，职业等的）守护神
5. （英国国教中）有圣职授与权的人
6. （旅店等的）老板
   We were effusively welcomed by the patron and his wife.

   我们受到老板和他妻子的热忱欢迎。

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.