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Plural of patient

regular plural

The plural of patient is patients.

Forms of patient

Singularpatient /ˈpeɪ̯ʃənt/
Pluralpatients
Countablecountable

Patients in a sentence

  • Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.
  • At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills.
  • If one of my patients calls, please bring them their dinner.From the entry them
  • The patients, (al)though getting stronger, will not come off their medications.From the entry although
  • Patients diagnosed more recently are probably surviving an average of longer than two years.From the entry than

Meaning of patient

  1. adjective Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.
  2. adjective Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.
  3. adjective Physically able to suffer or bear.

Full definition of patient

Questions about the plural of patient

What is the plural of patient?
The plural of patient is patients.
Is patient countable?
Patient is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: patient (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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