patience

pa·tience  (pshns)

n.

1. The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient.

2. Chiefly British The game solitaire.

Synonyms: patience, long-suffering, resignation, forbearance
These nouns denote the capacity to endure hardship, difficulty, or inconvenience without complaint. Patience emphasizes calmness, self-control, and the willingness or ability to tolerate delay: Our patience will achieve more than our force (Edmund Burke).
Long-suffering is long and patient endurance, as of wrong or provocation: The general, a man not known for docility and long-suffering, flew into a rage.
Resignation implies acceptance of or submission to something trying, as out of despair or necessity: I undertook the job with an air of resignation.
Forbearance denotes restraint, as in retaliating, demanding what is due, or voicing disapproval: "It is the mutual duty of all to practice Christian forbearance, love, and charity towards each other" (Patrick Henry).

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patience [ˈpeɪʃəns]

n

1. tolerant and even-tempered perseverance

2. the capacity for calmly enduring pain, trying situations, etc.

3. (Group Games / Card Games) Chiefly Brit 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

[via Old French from Latin patientia endurance, from patī to suffer]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	patience - good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence forbearance, longanimity good nature - a cheerful, obliging disposition impatience - a dislike of anything that causes delay
	2.	patience - a card game played by one person solitaire card game, cards - a game played with playing cards canfield - a form of solitaire that involves gambling klondike - a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time crapette, Russian bank - solitaire with two players using separate packs

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patience

noun

1. forbearance, tolerance, composure, serenity, cool (slang), restraint, calmness, equanimity, toleration, sufferance, even temper, imperturbability She lost her patience and shrieked, `Just shut up, will you?'
forbearance passion, excitement, irritation, impatience, nervousness, agitation, exasperation, restlessness

2. endurance, resignation, submission, fortitude, persistence, long-suffering, perseverance, stoicism, constancy a burden which he has borne with great patience

Quotations
"Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience" [Comte de Buffon]
"Patience is the virtue of an ass" [Lord Lansdowne]
"They also serve who only stand and wait" [John Milton Sonnet on his Blindness]

Proverbs
"All things come to those who wait"
"Rome was not built in a day"
"Patience is a virtue"

Translations

patience [ˈpeɪʃəns] N

1. → paciencia f
my patience is exhausted → se me ha acabado or agotado la paciencia
you must have patience → hay que tener paciencia
I have no patience with you → ya no te aguanto más
he has no patience with fools → no soporta a los tontos
to lose one's patience (with sth/sb) → perder la paciencia(con algo/algn)
to try sb's patience → poner a prueba la paciencia de algn
to have the patience of a saint → tener más paciencia que un santo
to possess one's soul in patience → armarse de paciencia

2. (Brit) (Cards) → solitario m
to play patience → hacer un solitario

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patience [ˈpeɪʃ^əns] n

(= virtue) → patience f
He hasn't got much patience → Il n'a pas beaucoup de patience.
it takes patience to do ... → il faut de la patience pour faire ...
He doesn't have the patience to wait
BUT Il n'a pas la patience d'attendre.
to lose patience → perdre patience
to lose patience with sb → en avoir assez de qn
to try sb's patience, to test sb's patience → mettre la patience de qn à l'épreuve

(British) (= game) → réussite f
to play patience → faire une réussite

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patience

n

→ Geduld f; to have patience/no patience (with somebody/something) → Geduld/keine Geduld (mit jdm/etw) haben; to have no patience with somebody/something (fig inf: = dislike) → für jdn/etw nichts übrighaben; to lose (one’s) patience (with somebody/something) → (mit jdm/etw) die Geduld verlieren; to try or test somebody’s patience → jds Geduld auf die Probe stellen; patience is a virtue (prov) → Geduld ist eine Tugend; patience, patience! → nur Geduld!, immer mit der Ruhe! ? possess

(Brit Cards) → Patience f; to play patience → eine Patience legen

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patience [ˈpeɪʃ/əns] n

a. → pazienza
to lose one's patience → spazientirsi
to lose one's patience with sb/sth → perdere la pazienza con qn/qc
he has no patience with children → non ha pazienza con i bambini

b. (Brit) (Cards) → solitario
to play patience → fare un solitario

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patience [ˈpeɪʃ/əns] n

a. → pazienza
to lose one's patience → spazientirsi
to lose one's patience with sb/sth → perdere la pazienza con qn/qc
he has no patience with children → non ha pazienza con i bambini

b. (Brit) (Cards) → solitario
to play patience → fare un solitario

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