PATIENCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does patience mean? 

• PATIENCE (noun)
  The noun PATIENCE has 2 senses:

1. good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

2. a card game played by one person

  Familiarity information: PATIENCE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PATIENCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

forbearance; longanimity; patience

Hypernyms ("patience" is a kind of...):

good nature (a cheerful, obliging disposition)

Antonym:

impatience (a dislike of anything that causes delay)

Derivation:

patient (enduring trying circumstances with even temper or characterized by such endurance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A card game played by one person

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

patience; solitaire

Hypernyms ("patience" is a kind of...):

card game; cards (a game played with playing cards)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "patience"):

canfield (a form of solitaire that involves gambling)

klondike (a form of solitaire that begins with seven piles of cards with the top cards facing up; descending sequences of cards of alternating colors are built on these piles; as aces become available they are placed above the seven piles; the object is to build sequences in suit from ace to king as the remaining cards are dealt out one at a time)

crapette; Russian bank (solitaire with two players using separate packs)

 Context examples 

The man's patience was no less terrible.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Holmes smiled with an expression of weary patience.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have not time or patience to give half Henry's messages; be satisfied that the spirit of each and every one is unalterable affection.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Her partner now drew near, and said, That gentleman would have put me out of patience, had he stayed with you half a minute longer.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

It requires more philosophy than I possess to bear this injustice with patience.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

On the other hand, were there dull patience needed with steady toil and strain of memory, no single fact could by any driving be fixed in her mind.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This particular trend of Mercury could try your patience.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

And at last his patience was rewarded.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He was preeminently cunning, and could bide his time with a patience that was nothing less than primitive.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

"Oh, dear," thought Meg, "married life is very trying, and does need infinite patience as well as love, as Mother says."

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)