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Noun: patience  pey-shun(t)s
  1. Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
    - forbearance, longanimity
     
  2. [Brit] A card game played by one person
    - solitaire

Sounds like: paste, tience, pa

Derived forms: patiences

Type of: card game, cards, good nature

Antonym: impatience

Encyclopedia: Patience, Princess Catherine Patience Patience, Rhode Island Patience, or Bunthornes Bride Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride

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