Patience

Definition: Patience

Patience

Noun

1. Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.

2. A card game played by one person.

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"Patience" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "the patience".

Date "patience" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Satire

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Synonyms: Patience

Amusement

Cards, card games; whist, rubber; round game; loo, cribbage, besique, euchre, drole, ecarte, picquet, allfours, quadrille, omber, reverse, Pope Joan, commit; boston, boaston; blackjack, twenty-one, vingtun; quinze, thirty-one, put, speculation, connections, brag, cassino, lottery, commerce, snip-snap-snoren, lift smoke, blind hookey, Polish bank, Earl of Coventry, Napoleon, patience, pairs; banker; blind poker, draw poker, straight poker, stud poker; bluff, bridge, bridge whist; lotto, monte, three-card monte, nap, penny-ante, poker, reversis, squeezers, old maid, fright, beggar-my-neighbor; baccarat.

Difficulty

Verb: be difficult; Adjective: run one hard, go against the grain, try one's patience, put one out; put to one's shifts, put to one's wit's end; go hard with one, try one; pose, perplex; (uncertain); bother, nonplus, gravel, bring to a deadlock; be impossible; be in the way of; (hinder).

Excitability

Verb: be impatient; Adjective: not be able to bear; bear ill, wince, chafe, champ a bit; be in a stew; Noun: be out of all patience, fidget, fuss, not have a wink of sleep; toss on one's pillow.

Submission; resignation; sufferance, supportance, endurance, longsufferance, forbearance; longanimity; patience of Job, patience "on a monument", patience "sovereign o'er transmuted ill"; moderation; repression of feelings, subjugation of feeling; restraint.

Noun: inexcitability, imperturbability, inirritability; even temper, tranquil mind, dispassion; tolerance, patience, coolth.

Meek, tolerant; patient, patient as Job; submissive; tame; content, resigned, chastened, subdued, lamblike; gentle as a lamb; suaviter in modo; mild as mothers milk; soft as peppermint; armed with patience, bearing with, clement, long-suffering.

Interjection: patience! and shuffle the cards.

Adverb: "like patience on a monument smiling at grief"; aequo animo, in cold blood; more in sorrow than in anger.

Pain

Irritate, provoke, sting, nettle, try the patience, pique, fret, rile, tweak the nose, chafe, gall; sting to the quick, wound to the quick, cut to the quick; aggrieve, affront, enchafe, enrage, ruffle, sour the temper; give offense; (resentment).

Perseverance

Constancy, steadiness; singleness of purpose, tenacity of purpose; persistence, plodding, patience; sedulity; (industry); pertinacy, pertinacity, pertinaciousness; iteration;

Weariness

Verb: weary; tire; (fatigue); bore; bore to death, weary to death, tire to death, bore out of one's skull, bore out of one's life, weary out of one's life, tire out of one's life, bore out of all patience, weary out of all patience, wear out one's patience, tire out of all patience; set to sleep, send to sleep; buttonhole.

Crosswords: Patience

French (Aloe, forbearance, patience), German (patience).

I can feel myself gettin' awful mad. I'm out of patience children (The Night of the Hunter; writing credit: James Agee; Davis Grubb)

How do you have patience for people who claim they love America, but clearly can't stand Americans (The American President; writing credit: Aaron Sorkin)

No. I have to have patience, and when I open it, I'll be ready to read the message (Shanghai Knights; writing credit: Alfred Gough; Miles Millar)

Do not test my patience, Raziel (Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver II; writing credit: Amy Hennig)

Sure it can, with time and patience, but I always smell death on you. (Chisum; writing credit: Andrew J. Fenady)

Thanks for your patience (Head Over Feet; performing artist: Alanis Morissette)

A whole lot of patience, (Carrie; performing artist: Europe)

Think I'm done nursing the patience (Learn To Fly; performing artist: Foo Fighters)

But I've run out of patience (Special; performing artist: Garbage)

It's gonna take patience and time, ummm (Got My Mind Set On You; performing artist: George Harrison)

Patience is the silken cord on which are strung the pearls of virtue. (references; author: unknown)

Lord give me an answer, or give me the patience to wait for one. Just do it now please! (references; author: unknown)

Parental Observation: You can learn many things from children, like how much patience you have. (references; author: unknown)

Patience (1965)

The Reward of Patience (1916)

Patience (2002)

La Patience de Maigret (1994)

Zero Patience (1993)

Patience (performing artist: Guns N' Roses)

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Books

• Patience (reference)

• Patience and Sarah (reference)

• Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert (reference)

  (more book examples)

Theater & Movies

• His Holiness the XIV Dalai Lama: Arising From Flames - Overcoming Anger Through Patience (reference)

• Character Builder Videos: Patience and Peace (reference)

• The Big Comfy Couch - Patience, Molly/Squeaky Clean (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Patience (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Narragansett Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve Aerial view of South Prudence Island and T-wharf. Prudence Island, Patience Island, and Hope Island are the virtuous names of the islands that make up this Rhode Island NERR. The reserve is located in the geographic center of Narragansett Bay. Credit: National Estuarine Research Reserve System (NERR).

Patience. Credit: Library of Congress.

Patience boys -- it won't be long now. Credit: Library of Congress.

Patience. Credit: Library of Congress.

Demain, il y aura du tabac et des cigarettes; un peu de patience, fumeurs, et restreignons - nous pour aujourd'hui. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Lady Angela" & "Lady Saphir" in Patience. Credit: Library of Congress.

Patience. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Lady Jane" in Patience. Credit: Library of Congress.

"Patience" in Patience. Credit: Library of Congress.

Demain, il y aura du tabac et des cigarettes; un peu de patience, fumeurs, et restreignons - nous pour aujourd'hui. Credit: Library of Congress.

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If God has taken away all means of seeking remedy, there is nothing left but patience. (Second Treatise of Government)

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She will never submit to any thing requiring industry and patience, and a subjection of the fancy to the understanding

It is hard to have patience with people who say "There is no death" or "Death doesn't matter.

A little more patience.

He bore cynically with the shameful details of his secret riots in which he exulted to defile with patience whatever image had attracted his eyes

Meantime, have patience.

I begged his patience to hear me tell my story, which I faithfully did from the last time I left England to the moment he first discovered me.

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Health

Some of these articles are rather technical, so some patience may be required. (references)

Since no two patients will react the same way to a given drug, it may take time and patience to get the dose just right. (references)

With time and patience, a stroke survivor should be able to regain some, and sometimes all, language and speaking abilities. (references)

Business

China’s software market requires patience and a set of focused approaches. (references)

If a company has little patience for delayed returns, China is not the market to enter. (references)

Great patience, sensitivity to the Thai business and political culture, perseverance and commitment are crucial qualities needed to successfully break into the Thai market. (references)

Economic History

Indonesia

Other key success factors for doing business in Indonesia are patience and presence. (references)

Denmark

Patience and commitment count. (references)

Bangladesh

The keys to success in doing business in Bangladesh are having patience and finding strong, effective local representation. (references)

Political Economy

TUNISIA

Customs' administrative procedures are often complex and burdensome, requiring time and patience. (references)

Travel

Korea

The seemingly endless rush-hour traffic can be a major hindrance, so early preparation, as well as lots of patience, is required. (references)

Thailand

The Thai cultural values of patience, respect for status (age, authority, etc.) and not losing face, are significant factors in business relationships as well . Thais feel great pride for their country and have deep respect for tradition . Sometimes, however, observance of traditional formalities may seem inconsistent to the tolerant, relaxed nature of living in Thailand . This can be confusing or frustrating to Westerners who are more informal and more time conscious. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

The patience

Expressions using "patience": armed with patience ♦ be at the end of one's patience ♦ be out of patience ♦ exercise patience ♦ exercise smb.'s patience ♦ have a little patience ♦ have no patience with smb. ♦ have patience ♦ have the patience of a saint ♦ loose one's patience ♦ lose one's patience ♦ lose patience ♦ lose patience with smb. ♦ out of patience ♦ patience of job ♦ possess oneself in patience ♦ quality of patience ♦ saintly patience ♦ school oneself in patience ♦ school oneself to patience ♦ summon up patience ♦ try ones patience ♦ try one's patience ♦ try the patience of ♦ want patience ♦ with patience ♦ with uncomplaining patience. Additional references.

Beginning with "patience": patience-beads.

Afrikaans

geduld. (various references)

Albanian

durim (bearing, endurance, fitness, stay, sufferance, tolerance, toleration). (various references)

Arabic 

‏لويحة صقل الأزرار, ‏لعبة الصبر, ‏حلم (clemency, dream, forbearance, indulgence, longanimity, overindulgence, tolerance, toleration), ‏عمل دقيق جدا, ‏ضرب من لعب الورق, ‏صبر (aloe, forbearance, longanimity, mummification, mummify, sabra, sufferance), ‏جلد (belabour, belt, birch, curry, cut, drub, drubbing, endurance, flagellation, flog, flogging, fortitude, gladiatorial, hide, integument, lacing, lambaste, lash, lashing, leather, licking, pasting, scourge, self control, skin, slash, slashing, stamina, sting, sufferance, switch, tan, thrash, thump, toleration, trounce, whip, whipping), ‏أناة. (various references)

Bulgarian 

упорство (contumacy, obstinacy, persistence, pertinacity, refractoriness, self will), упоритост (grit, obduracy, obstinacy, perseverance, persistence, pertinacity, piggery, refractoriness, stickiness, stick-to-itiveness, stolidity, stoutness, strenuousness, stubbornness, tenacity, toughness), търпение (forbearance, sufferance), търпеливост (endurance, longanimity), пасианс (solitaire), издръжливост (bottom, endurance, guts, mettle, reliability, resistance, sand, sinews, stay, staying power, strength, tenacity, tensility, toughness, vitality, wear). (various references)

Catalan

paciència. (various references)

Chinese 

耐心, 忍耐 (endure, exercise, patient, restrain oneself). (various references)

Czech

trpìlivost (endurance, forbearance). (various references)

Danish

vinterspinat (garden dock, herb, patience dock), tålmodighed, romersk spinat (garden dock, herb, patience dock), engelsk spinat (garden dock, herb, patience dock). (various references)

Dutch

geduld. (various references)

Esperanto

pacienco. (various references)

Faeroese

tol. (various references)

Farsi 

تاب (Glow, Sway, Swing, Twist), طاقت (Gut, Lip, Nerve, Stamina, Sufferance), صبر, شکیباءی (Fortitude, Sufferance), شکیب , بردباری (Fortitude, Spartanism, Tolerance). (various references)

Finnish

pinaattihierakka (garden dock, herb, patience dock), pasianssi, kärsivällisyys (forbearance). (various references)

French

patience. (various references)

Frisian

ferduldigens. (various references)

German

Geduld (endurance, quality of patience), ausdauer (endurance, enduringness, hardiness, perseverance, persistence, persistency, stamina, staying power, tenacity). (various references)

Greek 

υπομονή (bearing, endurance, forbearance, patience with, sufferance). (various references)

Hawaiian

durim. (various references)

Hebrew 

מתינות (discretion, mildness, moderacy, moderation, prudence, restraint, temperance), ארך אפים (forbearance), ארך רוח (forbearance), סבלנות (tolerance). (various references)

Hungarian

türelem (forbearance, long-suffering, suffering, tolerance, toleration). (various references)

Icelandic

þolinmæði. (various references)

Indonesian

ketelatenan, kesabaran (endurance, forbearance, tolerance). (various references)

Italian

pazienza (endurance, forbearance). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

隠忍 (endurance), 辛抱 (endurance), 機根 (perseverance), 我慢 (endurance, perseverance, self-control, self-denial, tolerance), 根気 (energy, perseverance), 堪え性 (endurance, perseverance). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

がまん (endurance, perseverance, self-control, self-denial, tolerance), きこん (aerial root, marriage, married, perseverance), しんぼう (atrium, axle, careful, chamber of the heart, confidence, deeply laid plan, deliberate, endurance, popularity, shaft, thoughtful), いんにん (endurance), こらえしょう (endurance, perseverance), こんき (chance of marriage, energy, marriageable age, perseverance, radical, the present term, this season). (various references)

Korean 

끈기. (various references)

Manx

surranse foddey (long-suffering), meenys (softness, tameness), meenid (blandness, clemency, clemency of weather), meeinid (blandness, fineness, gentleness, silkiness, smoothness, softness, tameness). (various references)

Norwegian

tålmodighet. (various references)

Papiamen

parenshi. (various references)

Pig Latin

atiencepay.(various references)

Polish

cierpliwość. (various references)

Portuguese

paciência (bearing, endurance, forbearance, tolerance). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

paciência. (various references)

Romanian

pasians, pacienţã, stãruinţã (assiduity, constancy, diligence, hardness, insistence, perseverance, persistence, solicitation, steadfastness, steadiness, tenacity, zeal), rãbdare (bearing, endurance, forbearance, perseverance, philosophy, tolerance), ştevie de grãdinã, îngãduinţã (approval, lenience, leniency, lenity, mercy, non-interference, tolerance). (various references)

Russian 

терпение (bearing). (various references)

Scottish

furas (patience: *f-air-asta), fulang (forbearance, suffering), foidhidinn (nf.ind. patience). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

pasijans (solitaire), strpljivost (longanimity), strpljenje (forbearance). (various references)

Spanish

paciencia (forbearance, tolerance). (various references)

Sranan

pasensi. (various references)

Swedish

tålamod (forbearance, long-suffering, patient). (various references)

Turkish

tek kişilik iskambil oyunu, tahammül (endurance, fortitude, hardihood, hardiness, resistance, sufferance, tolerance), sabır (endurance, fastness, forbearance, steadfastness, steadiness). (various references)

Turkmen 

takat, sabyrlylyk, sabyr, karar (conclusion, decision), kanagat (satisfaction), зydam. (various references)

Ukrainian

терпіння (bearing, sufferance), терплячість (endurance, forbearance), наполегливість (aggressive, insistence, obstinacy, perseverance, persistence, urgency). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính nhẫn nại, tính kiên nhẫn (perseverance), sự bền chí (perseverance). (various references)

Welsh

ymaros (bear with, endure, longsuffering), dioddefgarwch, amynedd. (various references)

longanimitas, longanimitate, longanimitatem, patientia, patientiae, patientiam, Rumex patientia. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.