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Middle English patron < Old French patron < Latin patronus (“‘patron’”) < pater (“‘father’”). For the semantic shift, a patron is to be thought of as a model citizen, i.e., to be imitated.
Pronunciation
Noun
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Singular pattern |
Plural patterns |
pattern (plural patterns)
- that from which a copy is made
- design, motif or decoration formed from multiple copies of an original fitted together
- arrangement of objects, facts etc. which has a mathematical, geometric, statistical etc. relationship
- a series of steps, repeated
- the quality held in common by a pattern
- (linguistics) in Semitic and other Afro-Asiatic languages, the arrangement of prefixes, suffixes, consonant-doubling, vowels, and stress in a word formed around a consonantal root
Synonyms
- original (1)
- stencil (1)
- tessellation (2)
- category (3)
- cycle (4)
- similarity (5)
- See also Wikisaurus:model
Verb
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Infinitive to pattern |
Third person singular patterns |
Simple past patterned |
Past participle patterned |
Present participle patterning |
to pattern (third-person singular simple present patterns, present participle patterning, simple past and past participle patterned)
- to apply a pattern
- to follow an example
- 1998, John B. Wilson, The Evolution of Divisions and Separate Brigades:
- Under his system, patterned after the French, the army corps became a more mobile, flexible command.
- 1998, John B. Wilson, The Evolution of Divisions and Separate Brigades:
- to fit into a pattern
Synonyms
- model
- categorize (2)
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