Word Meanings - PADRONE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
1. A patron; a protector. 2. The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean. 3. A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Italian laborers, street musicians, etc.
Related words: (words related to PADRONE)
- PATRONIZING
Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another. -- Pat"ron*i`zing*ly, adv. Thackeray. - PATRONYMIC
Derived from ancestors; as, a patronymic denomination. - PATRONIZER
One who patronizes. - MASTERSHIP
1. The state or office of a master. 2. Mastery; dominion; superior skill; superiority. Where noble youths for mastership should strive. Driden. 3. Chief work; masterpiece. Dryden. 4. An ironical title of respect. How now, seignior Launce ! what - MASTEROUS
Masterly. Milton. - SMALLISH
Somewhat small. G. W. Cable. - PROTECTORIAL
See PROTECTORAL - PATRONAL
Patron; protecting; favoring. Sir T. Browne. - PROTECTORLESS
Having no protector; unprotected. - ITALIAN
Of or pertaining to Italy, or to its people or language. Italian cloth a light material of cotton and worsted; -- called also farmer's satin. -- Italian iron, a heater for fluting frills. -- Italian juice, Calabrian liquorice. - SMALLCLOTHES
A man's garment for the hips and thighs; breeches. See Breeches. - STREETWARD
An officer, or ward, having the care of the streets. Cowell. - MASTERFULLY
In a masterful manner; imperiously. A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority. Macaulay. - SMALLPOX
A contagious, constitutional, febrile disease characterized by a peculiar eruption; variola. The cutaneous eruption is at first a collection of papules which become vesicles (first flat, subsequently umbilicated) and then pustules, and finally thick - MASTERSINGER
One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm. - SMALL
sm$l; akin to D. smal narrow, OS. & OHG. smal small, G. schmal narrow, Dan. & Sw. smal, Goth. smals small, Icel. smali smal cattle, sheep, or goats; cf. Gr. 1. Having little size, compared with other things of the same kind; little in quantity - MASTER
A vessel having masts; -- used only in compounds; as, a two-master. - SMALLAGE
A biennial umbelliferous plant native of the seacoats of Europe and Asia. When deprived of its acrid and even poisonous properties by cultivation, it becomes celery. - SMALLY
In a small quantity or degree; with minuteness. Ascham. - COASTER
1. A vessel employed in sailing along a coast, or engaged in the coasting trade. 2. One who sails near the shore. - CREMASTERIC
Of or pertaining to the cremaster; as, the cremasteric artery. - BAGGAGE MASTER
One who has charge of the baggage at a railway station or upon a line of public travel. - TOASTMASTER
A person who presides at a public dinner or banquet, and announces the toasts. - DISMALLY
In a dismal manner; gloomily; sorrowfully; uncomfortably. - TASKMASTER
One who imposes a task, or burdens another with labor; one whose duty is to assign tasks; an overseer. Ex. i. 11. All is, if I have grace to use it so, As ever in my great Taskmaster's eye. Milton. - BANDMASTER
The conductor of a musical band. - HARBOR MASTER
An officer charged with the duty of executing the regulations respecting the use of a harbor. - WALL STREET
A street towards the southern end of the borough of Manhattan, New York City, extending from Broadway to the East River; -- so called from the old wall which extended along it when the city belonged to the Dutch. It is the chief financial center - WEIGHMASTER
One whose business it is to weigh ore, hay, merchandise, etc.; one licensed as a public weigher. - BEEMASTER
One who keeps bees. - POSTMASTERSHIP
The office of postmaster.