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PATIENCE
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A card game played by one person
Synonyms:
patience; solitaire
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
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)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
Synonyms:
forbearance; longanimity; patience
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
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)
Context examples:
He find in patience just how is his strength, and what are his powers.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
“And because you have so much constancy and patience, Traddles.”
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Have patience with me, I shall soon have done.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
You must feel it; and the usual satisfaction of preaching patience to a sufferer is denied me, because you have always so much.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
They were now joined by Mrs. Jennings, who had not patience enough to wait till the door was opened before she told HER story.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
Upon which I shall desire liberty, with the reader’s patience, to enlarge a little.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
He had no patience with chance effects.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
For the moment we could only sit among the bushes in patience and wait the coming of Zambo.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It required much thinking and endless patience on the part of Weedon Scott to accomplish this.
(White Fang, by Jack London)
“I will not impose any further tax upon Lady Brackenstall’s patience and time,” said Holmes.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
