Patron vs. Visitor — What's the Difference?

A person who gives financial or other support to a person, organization, or cause

A visitor, in English and Welsh law and history, is an overseer of an autonomous ecclesiastical or eleemosynary institution, often a charitable institution set up for the perpetual distribution of the founder's alms and bounty, who can intervene in the internal affairs of that institution. Those with such visitors are mainly cathedrals, chapels, schools, colleges, universities, and hospitals.

A customer of a shop, restaurant, etc., especially a regular one

A person visiting someone or somewhere, especially socially or as a tourist

A patrician in relation to a client.

One that visits

A person or institution with the right to grant a benefice to a member of the clergy.

Someone who visits someone else; someone staying as a guest.

One that supports, protects, or champions someone or something, such as an institution, event, or cause; a sponsor or benefactor

Someone who pays a visit to a specific place or event; a sightseer or tourist.

A customer, especially a regular customer.

Someone, or a team, that is playing away from home.

(also pä-trōn) The owner or manager of an establishment, especially a restaurant or an inn of France or Spain.

A person authorized to visit an institution to see that it is being managed properly.

A noble or wealthy person in ancient Rome who granted favor and protection to someone in exchange for certain services.

(ufology) An extraterrestrial being on Earth for any reason.

A slave owner in ancient Rome who freed a slave without relinquishing all legal claim to him.

An object which lands or passes by Earth or its orbit.

One who possesses the right to grant an ecclesiastical benefice to a member of the clergy.

(British) A head or overseer of an institution such as a college (in which case, equivalent to the university's chancellor) or cathedral or hospital, who resolves disputes, gives ceremonial speeches, etc.

A patron saint.

(software engineering) The object in the visitor pattern that performs an operation on the elements of a structure one by one.

One who protects or supports; a defender or advocate.

One who visits; one who comes or goes to see another, as in civility or friendship.

A guardian or intercessor; patron saint.

Someone who visits

An influential, wealthy person who supported an artist, craftsman, a scholar or a noble.

A customer, as of a certain store or restaurant.

A protector of a dependent, especially a master who had freed a slave but still retained some paternal rights.

One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

(nautical) A padrone.

A property owner, a landlord, a master. patroon.}}

To be a patron of; to patronize; to favour.

To treat as a patron.

One who protects, supports, or countenances; a defender.

A master who had freed his slave, but still retained some paternal rights over him.

One who encourages or helps a person, a cause, or a work; a furtherer; a promoter; as, a patron of art.

One who has gift and disposition of a benefice.

A guardian saint. - called also patron saint.

See Padrone, 2.

To be a patron of; to patronize; to favor.

Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

A regular customer

The proprietor of an inn

Someone who supports or champions something