Member
Member noun - One of the parts that make up a whole.
Patron and member are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Patron" instead a noun "Member".
Nearby Word: membership
Patron
Patron noun - A person who buys a product or uses a service from a business.
Mutual synonyms
How words are described
Both words in one sentence
- Brian killed the last member of a species while taunting the patron god of said species, knowing that god could not directly act against mortals.
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A running gag in Metalocalypse is that some unlucky patron (usually a audience member or a production staff) looks up just as chaos erupts.
Source: Death by Looking Up -
But it becomes quite jarring when it happens to your party member clerics, who each have established patron deities.
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