Definition of Patience in English :

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Patience

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Noun

1. forbearance, longanimity, patience

good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

2. patience, solitaire

a card game played by one person

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Patience

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noun
1. 
tolerant and even-tempered perseverance
2. 
the capacity for calmly enduring pain, trying situations, etc
3. mainly British
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 equivalent: solitaire
4. obsolete
permission; sufferance

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Patience

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noun
1. 
the state, quality, or fact of being patient
; specif.,
a. 
the will or ability to wait or endure without complaint
b. 
steadiness, endurance, or perseverance in the performance of a task
2.  British
solitaire (sense 3)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Patience

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n.
1. The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient: "The task of mastering ancient languages ... takes years of study, and persistence, and patience" (Cullen Murphy).
2. Chiefly British, Games Solitaire.

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