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pa·tient  (pshnt)
adj.
1. Bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance with calmness.
2. Marked by or exhibiting calm endurance of pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance.
3. Tolerant; understanding: an unfailingly patient leader and guide.
4. Persevering; constant: With patient industry, she revived the failing business and made it thrive.
5. Capable of calmly awaiting an outcome or result; not hasty or impulsive.
6. Capable of bearing or enduring pain, difficulty, provocation, or annoyance: "My uncle Toby was a man patient of injuries" (Laurence Sterne).
n.
1. One who receives medical attention, care, or treatment.
2. Linguistics A noun or noun phrase identifying one that is acted upon or undergoes an action. Also called goal.
3. Archaic One who suffers.

[Middle English pacient, from Old French, from Latin patins, patient-, present participle of pat, to endure; see p(i)- in Indo-European roots.]

patient·ly adv.
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Adv.1.patiently - with patience; in a patient manner; "he patiently played with the child"
impatiently - with impatience; in an impatient manner; "he answered her impatiently"
Translations
patiently [ˈpeɪʃəntlɪ] ADVcon paciencia, pacientemente
patiently [ˈpeɪʃəntli] adv [wait] → patiemment
patiently
advgeduldig; to wait patientlygeduldig warten; a very patiently reconstructed picture of Babylonian lifeein mit Akribie rekonstruiertes Bild babylonischer Lebensweise
patiently [ˈpeɪʃntlɪ] advpazientemente


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