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patients

patients is the plural of patient.

Meaning of patient

Noun

patient (plural patients)

  1. A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.
    • Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.
  2. The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.
    • The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.
    Antonyms:
    agent, doer
  3. One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.
    • Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.c. 1658, Dr. Henry More, Government of the Tongue

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Proper noun capitalized: Patients

Patients

  1. (plural) plural of Patient

Phrases with patients

Questions about patients

What is patients the plural of?
Patients is the plural of patient.
What part of speech is patients?
Patients is a proper noun.

Words near patients in the dictionary

  1. patientives
  2. patientless
  3. patientlike
  4. patiently
  5. patientness
  6. patients
  7. patients under investigation
  8. patients zero
  9. patientspeak
  10. patiki
  11. Patikul

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