| patronizingly | (adverb) with condescension; in a patronizing manner | Synonyms: condescendingly, patronisingly |
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| patronless | (adjective) having little patronage or few clients | Synonyms: unpatronised, unpatronized |
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| patronne | (noun) a woman who is a patron or the wife of a patron | Synonyms: patroness |
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| patronym | (noun) a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) | Synonyms: patronymic |
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| patronymic | (adjective) of or derived from a personal or family name | - |
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| (noun) a family name derived from name of your father or a paternal ancestor (especially with an affix (such as -son in English or O'- in Irish) added to the name of your father or a paternal ancestor) | Synonyms: patronym |
| patsy | (noun) a person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of | Synonyms: chump, fall guy, fool, gull, mark, mug, soft touch, sucker |
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| patten | (noun) footwear usually with wooden soles | Synonyms: clog, geta, sabot |
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| patter | (noun) plausible glib talk (especially useful to a salesperson) | Synonyms: line of gab, spiel |
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| (noun) a quick succession of light rapid sounds | - |
| (verb) make light, rapid and repeated sounds | Synonyms: pitter-patter |
| (verb) rain gently | Synonyms: pitter-patter, spatter, spit, sprinkle |
| pattern | (noun) a customary way of operation or behavior | Synonyms: practice |
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| (noun) a decorative or artistic work | Synonyms: design, figure |
| (noun) a perceptual structure | Synonyms: form, shape |
| (noun) a model considered worthy of imitation | - |
| (noun) something intended as a guide for making something else | Synonyms: blueprint, design |
| (noun) something regarded as a normative example | Synonyms: convention, formula, normal, rule |
| (noun) graphical representation (in polar or Cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle | Synonyms: radiation diagram, radiation pattern |
| (noun) the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport | Synonyms: approach pattern, traffic pattern |
| (verb) plan or create according to a model or models | Synonyms: model |
| (verb) form a pattern | - |
| patterned | (adjective) having patterns (especially colorful patterns) | - |
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| patternmaker | (noun) someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentry or metalworking) | - |
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| patty | (noun) round flat candy | - |
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| (noun) small pie or pasty | - |
| (noun) small flat mass of chopped or ground food | Synonyms: cake |
| patzer | (noun) a poor chess player | - |
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