patience

noun

The capacity, quality, or fact of being patient.

noun

The game solitaire.

noun

The quality of being patient.

noun

The character or habit of mind that enables one to suffer afflictions, calamity, provocation, or other evil, with a calm unruffled temper; endurance without murmuring or fretfulness; calmness; composure.

noun

Quietness or calmness in waiting for something to happen; the cast or habit of mind that enables one to wait without discontent.

noun

Forbearance; leniency; indulgence; long-suffering.

noun

Constancy in labor or exertion; perseverance.

noun

Sufferance; permission.

noun

A plant, the patience dock. See dock

noun

A card-game: same as solitaire.