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Maecenases

Maecenases is the plural of Maecenas.

Meaning of Maecenas

Noun

Maecenas (plural Maecenases)

  1. A generous benefactor; specifically, a patron of literature or art.
    • […]thou art his deare and louing friend, good and gracious Lord and maſter, Mecenas,[…]1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], “Loue of men, which varies as his obiects, profitable, pleaſant, honeſt.”, in The Anatomy of Melancholy, […], Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John...

Questions about Maecenases

What is Maecenases the plural of?
Maecenases is the plural of Maecenas.

Words near Maecenases in the dictionary

  1. Mae West
  2. Mae Wests
  3. maebari
  4. Maebashi
  5. Maecenas
  6. Maecenases
  7. Maecenasship
  8. Maecenasships
  9. maecenatism
  10. maechi
  11. maechis

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Adapted from Wiktionary: Maecenases (page history and authors); Maecenas (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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