Patience: Definition and part of speech

Patience

  1. n. Solitaire.
  2. n. The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.
  3. n. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
  4. n. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
  5. n. Sufferance; permission.
  6. n. A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk’s rhubarb.
  7. The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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