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Noun: patience  peyshuns
  1. Good-natured tolerance of delay or incompetence
    - forbearance, longanimity
     
  2. A card game played by one person
    - solitaire

Sounds like: patients

Derived forms: patiences

See also: patient

Type of: card game, cards, good nature

Antonym: impatience

Encyclopedia: Patience Patience, or Bunthorne's Bride