Definition of patience

• n. - The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.
• n. - The act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
• n. - Constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
• n. - Sufferance; permission.
• n. - A kind of dock (Rumex Patientia), less common in America than in Europe; monk's rhubarb.
• n. - Solitaire.