patience
Syllables: pa·tienceUK/ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/
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Australia/ˈpæɪ̯.ʃəns/
patience noun: the quality of being patient.
Noun
patience (usually uncountable, plural patiences)
- The quality of being patient.
- Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.
- I appreciate the patience with which you've explained it.
- Synonyms:
- forbearance, restraint, thole
- Antonyms:
- impatience
- Any of various card games that can be played by one person.
- Synonyms:
- solitaire
Proper noun capitalized: Patience
IPA/ˈpeɪʃəns/
Patience
- A female given name from English.
- Meg had named it Patience. "But why?" he had exclaimed, not liking the name at all. "Patience is my favourite virtue," she had replied, "and we can call her Patty for short."1929, Mazo de la Roche, Whiteoaks of Jalna, Dundurn Press, published 2006, →ISBN, page 229
- A surname.
patience meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
patience in Hindi
- quality of being patient
- सहन sahan, धैर्य dhairya, सहनशीलता sahnaśīltā, धीरज dhīraj
patience in Tamil
- பொறுமை
patience in Marathi
- patience, forbearance, or perseverance in difficult circumstances; the ability to remain calm and steadfast while waiting
- सबुरी saburī
- patience, calmness, forbearance
- धैर्य dhairya
- patience, endurance
- संयम saiyam
patience in Urdu
- quality of being patient
- سہن sahan, صبر sabr, تحمل tahammul
More languagesFewer languages
- patience in Bengali
- ধৈর্য dhōirjo
- patience in Telugu
- ఓర్పు ōrpu, సహనము sahanamu
- patience in Malayalam
- ദീർഘക്ഷമ dīṟghakṣama, ക്ഷമ kṣama, സഹിഷ്ണുത sahiṣṇuta, പൊറുതി poṟuti
- patience in Kannada
- ತಾಳ್ಮೆ tāḷme, ಸಹನೆ sahane, ಸಮಾಧಾನ samādhāna
- patience in Punjabi
- صبر sabăr, ਸਬਰ sabar, حوصلہ ḥauṣlah, ਹੌਸਲਾ hauslā
- patience in Gujarati
- ધીરજ
- patience in Odia
- କ୍ଷମା kṣamā, ଛାତି chāti
- patience in Sanskrit
- सहन sahana, धैर्य dhairya
- patience in Assamese
- শাঁতি xãti
- patience in Nepali
- धैर्य
- patience in Pashto
- صبر sabᶕr, حوصله hawselá, زغم zǧam
- patience in Tagalog
- pasensya, solitaryo
- patience in Arabic
- صَبْر ṣabr, تَحَمُّل taḥammul
- patience in Malay
- sabar, kesabaran
- patience in Indonesian
- kesabaran
- patience in Persian
- صبر sabr, شکیبائی šakibâ'i, حوصله howsele, تحمل tahammol
- patience in Thai
- ความอดทน kwaam-òt-ton
- patience in Myanmar
- ခန္တီ hkanti
Examples of patience in a sentence
- The lion is the symbol of courage; the lamb is the symbol of meekness or patience.
- What I lack in patience, I make up for in drive.
- Teachers often lose their patience when children wriggle in their seats.
Synonyms of patience
Antonyms
Forms of patience
| plural | patiences |
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Origin of patience
Inherited from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”). Displaced Old English ġeþyld.
From patience, a virtue name first used by Puritans in the sixteenth century.
Words formed from patience
Phrases with patience
Questions about patience
- What does patience mean?
- Patience means the quality of being patient.
- What is patience in Hindi?
- Patience in Hindi is सहन (sahan), धैर्य (dhairya), सहनशीलता (sahnaśīltā). See Patience meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is patience?
- Patience can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce patience?
- Patience is pronounced /ˈpeɪ̯.ʃəns/ (UK).
- What is the plural of patience?
- The plural of patience is patiences.
Words near patience in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: patience (page history and authors); Patience (page history and authors); patience (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); धैर्य (Marathi) (page history and authors); ക്ഷമ (Malayalam) (page history and authors); ತಾಳ್ಮೆ (Kannada) (page history and authors); حوصلہ (Punjabi) (page history and authors); patience (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); କ୍ଷମା (Odia) (page history and authors); শাঁতি (Assamese) (page history and authors); patience (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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