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

Noun

1. the capacity for calmly enduring difficult situations: the endless patience of the nurses

2. the ability to wait calmly for something to happen without complaining or giving up: he urged the international community to have patience to allow sanctions to work

3. Brit & NZ a card game for one player only [Latin pati 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 << OPPOSITE impatience

noun 2. endurance, resignation, submission, fortitude, persistence, long-suffering, perseverance, stoicism, constancy

Translations

patience [ˈpeɪʃns] n → paciencia;

(BRIT) (CARDS) → solitario;

to lose one's patience → perder la paciencia

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patience [ˈpeɪʃns] n → patience f;

(Brit) (Cards) → réussite f;

to lose (one's) patience → perdre patience

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patience [ˈpeɪʃns] n → Geduld f;

(Brit) (Cards) → Patience f;

to lose (one's) patience → die Geduld verlieren

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patience [ˈpeɪʃns] n → pazienza;

(BRIT ) (CARDS) → solitario;

to lose one's patience → spazientirsi