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patience
What does patience mean?
patience (noun): good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use patience in a sentence?
- His patience snapped. (Tatoeba sentence #10493043 by sundown, CC BY 2.0 FR)
How do you pronounce patience?
/ˈpeɪʃəns/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does patience come from?
Inherited from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (Modern French patience).
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Words related to patience
From Princeton WordNet 3.1.
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What does “patience” mean?
an increase in size, number, value, or strength
Not quite: that's what growth means.
good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Right! That's what “patience” means.
a person who rules or guides or inspires others
Not quite: that's what leader means.
the (prehensile) extremity of the superior limb
Not quite: that's what hand means.
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