Patroon Definition

pə-tro͝on
noun
A person who held a large estate with manorial rights under a grant from the Dutch government of New Netherland.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Patroon

Noun

Singular:
patroon
Plural:
patroons

Origin of Patroon

  • Dutch from French patron patron, master from Old French patron

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Dutch, ultimately from Latin patronus.

    From Wiktionary

Patroon Sentence Examples

  • The patroon was the legal heir of all his colonists who died intestate.

  • Over this tract, the first patroonship granted in the colony, he had the usual powers and rights of a patroon.

  • The founder of a colony was styled a patroon, and, although the colonists were bound to him only by a voluntary contract for specified terms, the relations between them and the patroon during the continuance of the contract were in several important respects similar to those under the feudal system between the lord of a manor and his serfs.

  • The patroon received his estate in perpetual inheritance and had the exclusive right of hunting and fishing upon it.

  • The colony of Rensselaerwyck was the only one that prospered under the patroon system.

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Words Starting With

PPAPAT

Words Ending With

NONOON

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