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Definition of "patience" []

  • The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient. (noun)
  • Chiefly British The game solitaire. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "patience" in a sentence
  • ""How long will the poor endure this religion -- this make-believe -- which preaches patience, _patience_! when it ought to be urging war?""
  • ""You can't use the word patience in the city of Philadelphia, which I never used," Stefanski said before the game."
  • "However, just when the patience is at the point of exhaustion, when one might leave the theater with a clear consience, the film comes to fitful life. ”"