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- Dictionarypatience/ˈpeɪʃns/
noun
- 1. the capacity to accept or tolerate delay, problems, or suffering without becoming annoyed or anxious: "you can find bargains if you have the patience to sift through the rubbish" Similar Opposite
- 2. any of various forms of card game for one player, the object of which is to use up all one's cards by forming particular arrangements and sequences. British
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PATIENCE definition: 1. the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without…. Learn more.
1. : the capacity, habit, or fact of being patient. 2. chiefly British : solitaire sense 2. Synonyms. forbearance. long-suffering. sufferance. tolerance. See all Synonyms & Antonyms in Thesaurus. Examples of patience in a Sentence. To be a biographer is a somewhat peculiar endeavor.
Patience is a person's ability to wait something out or endure something tedious, without getting riled up. It takes a lot of patience to wait for your braces to come off, to deal with a toddler's temper tantrum, or to build a house out of toothpicks.
patience (with somebody/something) the ability to stay calm and accept a delay or something annoying without complaining She has little patience with (= will not accept or consider) such views. People have lost patience with (= have become annoyed about) the slow pace of reform.
the ability to wait, or to continue doing something despite difficulties, or to suffer without complaining or becoming annoyed: You have to have a lot of patience when you're dealing with kids. In the end I lost my patience and shouted at her. He's a good teacher, but he doesn't have much patience with the slower students.
If you have patience, you are able to stay calm and not get annoyed, for example when something takes a long time. He doesn't have the patience to wait. American English : patience / ˈpeɪʃəns /
patience noun 1 (& interjection) Factsheet. Etymology. Meaning & use. Pronunciation. Forms. Frequency. Compounds & derived words. Factsheet. What does the noun patience mean? There are ten meanings listed in OED's entry for the noun patience, three of which are labelled obsolete. See ‘Meaning & use’ for definitions, usage, and quotation evidence.
PATIENCE definition: 1. the quality of being able to stay calm and not get angry, especially when something takes a long…. Learn more.
PATIENCE meaning: 1 : the quality of being patient: such as; 2 : the ability to wait for a long time without becoming annoyed or upset.
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