| PAT | timely convenience |
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| PAT | a regional dialect of a language (especially French) |
| PAT | a characteristic language of a particular group (as among thieves) |
| PAT | South African writer (1903-1988) |
| PAT | (British) a person who has the right to be considered legally a British citizen (by virtue of the birth of a parent or grandparent) |
| PAT | a man who is older and higher in rank than yourself |
| PAT | any of the early Biblical characters regarded as fathers of the human race |
| PAT | the head of family or tribe |
| PAT | characteristic of a patriarchy |
| PAT | a cross with two crossbars |
| PAT | a form of social organization in which a male is the family head and title is traced through the male line |
| PAT | the jurisdiction of a patriarch |