'Patience' definitions:

Definition of 'patience'

From: WordNet
noun
Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence [syn: patience, forbearance, longanimity] [ant: impatience]
noun
A card game played by one person [syn: solitaire, patience]

Definition of 'Patience'

From: GCIDE
  • Patience \Pa"tience\ (p[=a]"shens), n. [F. patience, fr. L. patientia. See Patient.]
  • 1. The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc. [1913 Webster]
  • Strengthened with all might, . . . unto all patience and long-suffering. --Col. i. 11. [1913 Webster]
  • I must have patience to endure the load. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • Who hath learned lowliness From his Lord's cradle, patience from his cross. --Keble. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance. [1913 Webster]
  • Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all. --Matt. xviii. 29. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. Constancy in labor or application; perseverance. [1913 Webster]
  • He learned with patience, and with meekness taught. --Harte. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Sufferance; permission. [Obs.] --Hooker. [1913 Webster]
  • They stay upon your patience. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. (Bot.) A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. (Card Playing) Solitaire. [1913 Webster]
  • Syn: Patience, Resignation.
  • Usage: Patience implies the quietness or self-possession of one's own spirit under sufferings, provocations, etc.; resignation implies submission to the will of another. The Stoic may have patience; the Christian should have both patience and resignation. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'patience'

From: GCIDE
  • Monk \Monk\, n. [AS. munuc, munec, munc, L. monachus, Gr. ?, fr. mo`nos alone. Cf. Monachism.]
  • 1. A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty. "A monk out of his cloister." --Chaucer. [1913 Webster]
  • Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so strict a rule of life as monks are. --Ayliffe. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Print.) A blotch or spot of ink on a printed page, caused by the ink not being properly distributed. It is distinguished from a friar, or white spot caused by a deficiency of ink. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. A piece of tinder made of agaric, used in firing the powder hose or train of a mine. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. (Zool.) (a) A South American monkey (Pithecia monachus); also applied to other species, as Cebus xanthocephalus. (b) The European bullfinch. [1913 Webster]
  • Monk bat (Zool.), a South American and West Indian bat (Molossus nasutus); -- so called because the males live in communities by themselves.
  • Monk bird(Zool.), the friar bird.
  • Monk seal (Zool.), a species of seal ({Monachus albiventer}) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic.
  • Monk's rhubarb (Bot.), a kind of dock; -- also called patience (Rumex Patientia). [1913 Webster]

Synonyms of 'patience'

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