patients
PAY-shuhnts/ˈpeɪʃənts/
- 1Plural of patient.
The hospital admitted three new patients overnight.
Doctors monitored their patients closely during the trial.
Note
A regular plural made with a plain -s, and it belongs only to the noun. The adjective meaning willing to wait never takes an ending for number, so it is patient nurses, never patients nurses. The plural also serves the grammarian's sense: in linguistics, patients are the nouns on the receiving end of a verb's action, like the window in she broke the window.
patients is a form of patient
patient, noun: A person or animal that receives medical care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, or other trained health worker. Full entry
- Forms
- patientpatients plural
- Spelling
- patient → patients: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /s/.
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