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patience
1[ pey-shuhns ]
noun
- the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
Synonyms: , , , ,
- an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay:
to have patience with a slow learner.
- quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence:
to work with patience.
Synonyms: , ,
- Cards (chiefly British). solitaire ( def 1 ).
- Also called patience dock. a European dock, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, whose leaves are often used as a vegetable.
- Obsolete. leave; permission; sufference.
Patience
2[ pey-shuhns ]
noun
- a female given name.
patience
/ ˈɪʃəԲ /
noun
- tolerant and even-tempered perseverance
- the capacity for calmly enduring pain, trying situations, etc
- any of various card games for one player only, in which the cards may be laid out in various combinations as the player tries to use up the whole pack US equivalentsolitaire
- obsolete.permission; sufferance
Other Word Forms
- p·貹tԳ noun
Word History and Origins
Word History and Origins
Origin of patience1
Idioms and Phrases
see try one's patience .Synonym Study
Example Sentences
“Americans on our side of the border who have been dealing with this for decades are out of patience,” Zeldin said during a news conference in San Diego.
Kalaripayattu has four stages and it requires patience to learn the art form.
Soon, he signed up for his first-ever marathon, but getting there required the patience to clock in hours upon hours of training.
Armiger has also thanked residents for their patience.
But it was the sharpest moment yet of a federal judge losing patience.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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