Associations to the word «Patience»

Wiktionary

PATIENCE, noun. The quality of being patient.
PATIENCE, noun. Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
PATIENCE, proper noun. A female given name.
PATIENCE DOCK, noun. Rumex patientia, a herbaceous perennial plant.
PATIENCE OF A SAINT, noun. (idiom) A great deal of patience.
PATIENCE OF JOB, noun. (idiomatic) A great amount of patience.

Dictionary definition

PATIENCE, noun. Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence.
PATIENCE, noun. A card game played by one person.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats