Definitions for Patience

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Patience pa·tience

Spelling: [pey-shuh ns]

IPA: /ˈpeɪ ʃəns/

Patience is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 265 anagrams from letters in Patience (aceeinpt).

Definitions for Patience

noun

1. the quality of being patient, as the bearing of provocation, annoyance, misfortune, or pain, without complaint, loss of temper, irritation, or the like.
2. an ability or willingness to suppress restlessness or annoyance when confronted with delay:
3. quiet, steady perseverance; even-tempered care; diligence:
4. Cards (chiefly British) . solitaire (def 1).
5. Also called patience dock. a European dock, Rumex patientia, of the buckwheat family, whose leaves are often used as a vegetable.
6. Obsolete. leave; permission; sufference.
7. a female given name.

Origin of Patience

1175-1225; Middle English pacience Old French Latin patientia. See patient, -ence

Examples for Patience

It took a special, meticulous kind of person to accomplish the undertaking, someone with brains, patience, and nerves of steel.

Your patience, my dearest Mamma:—you were pleased to say, you would hear me with patience.

Duran believe that patience and tenacity helped things progress this far and they will be required in order for continued success.

The quartette started for the station with patience and Emma in the lead.

Users also require the bandwidth and patience to download large files (Flames of War is nearly a gigabyte).

Your father and uncles would have no patience were he to come.

“Have patience with him, good Master Pepper,” returned Mr. Headley.

Leonard said, “patience” or “Give it time” or “Wait your turn.”

I beg your pardon, dear Madam, and your patience with me on such an occasion as this.

To their minds, he was like a child trying to test the limits of his family's patience and affection.