patience

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The quality of being patient.

   Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.

2. 2
   name

   A female given name from English.

   Meg had named it Patience. "But why?" he had exclaimed, not liking the name at all. "Patience is my favourite virtue," she had replied, "and we can call her Patty for short."

3. 3
   noun

   a card game played by one person

4. 4
   noun

   good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

5. 5
   noun

   Any of various card games that can be played by one person.

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”). Displaced Old English ġeþyld.