Usually means: Owner or boss, especially Italian.
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  1. padrone: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. padrone: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. padrone: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. padrone: Collins English Dictionary
  5. padrone: Vocabulary.com
  6. Padrone, padrone: Wordnik
  7. padrone: Wiktionary
  8. padrone: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. padrone: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. padrone: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Padrone, padrone: Dictionary.com
  12. Padrone: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. padrone: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. padrone: Rhymezone
  15. Padrone, padrone: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. padrone: Free Dictionary
  17. padrone: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. padrone: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. padrone: Dictionary/thesaurus

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Definitions from Wiktionary (padrone)

noun:  A patron; a protector.
noun:  A landlord; the master of a large estate.
noun:  The master of a small coaster in the Mediterranean.
noun:  A man who imports, and controls the earnings of, Greek or Italian labourers, street musicians, child beggars, etc.
noun:  A mafia boss.

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