Word a Day
patient
What does patient mean?
patient (noun): a person who requires medical care.
Definition: Princeton WordNet 3.1.
How do you use patient in a sentence?
- The number of emergency patients has grown rapidly. (Princeton WordNet 3.1)
How do you pronounce patient?
/ˈpeɪʃənt/ (IPA, American English). The app reads every word aloud.
Where does patient come from?
From Middle English pacient, from Middle French patient.
Etymology: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
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What does “patient” mean?
a device to measure mass or weight
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a person who requires medical care
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any interconnected group or system
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more than half (50%) of some group
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