# patience

Pronunciation: say "PAY-shuhns" /ˈpeɪʃəns/

## Noun

1. The quality of being patient; the ability to endure waiting, delay, or provocation calmly and without complaint.
   - Simple: The ability to wait calmly or deal with problems without getting angry or upset.
   - _Learning a musical instrument requires patience and steady daily practice._
   - _Her patience with difficult customers earned her a reputation as the calmest person on the team._
2. Any of various card games designed to be played by a single person, known in the US and Canada as solitaire.
   - Simple: A card game for one player. In the US and Canada, people call it solitaire.
   - _He passed the long train ride with a game of patience on the tray table._
   - _My aunt deals herself a hand of patience every evening before bed._

## Origin

From Middle English pacience, borrowed from Old French pacience, from Latin patientia ("suffering, endurance, patience"). This comes from patiens, the present participle of patior ("suffer, experience, wait"), ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₁- ("to hurt"). It replaced the native Old English word ġeþyld.

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