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patricians

noun as in aristocracy

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Unlike most patricians Vidal was a consummate professional who also had to support himself from an early age.

Most important, as employers, the old patricians understood the need for basic education and training for their workers.

Like the old patricians, this new group shares a basic ideology.

The mulleus or calceus patricius was worn originally by patricians only, but later by all curule magistrates.

Either patricians or plebeians could be elected to the office of military tribunes.

The rebuilding of Rome was immediately followed by another period of conflict between the patricians and plebeians.

Two slight efforts were made by the patricians to counteract the political provisions of the Licinian Laws.

Immediately after the passage of the Licinian Laws the patricians secured the creation of a new office.

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On this page you'll find 105 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to patricians, such as: elite, gentility, gentry, nobility, upper class, and upper crust.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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