patience
The quality of being patient.
Noun 2 meanings
The quality of being patient.
“Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.”
Any of various card games that can be played by one person.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia (“suffering; endurance, patience”), from patiens, present active participle of patior (“suffer, experience, wait”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *peh₁- (“to hurt”). Displaced Old English ġeþyld.
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PATIENCE at a glance
PATIENCE has 8 letters and scores 12 points in Scrabble (P 3 + A 1 + T 1 + I 1 + E 1 + N 1 + C 3 + E 1) and 15 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #5,060 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with patience
All rhymes- SINCE7
- ONCE6
- EXPERIENCE21
- CHANCE13
- PERFORMANCE20
- EVIDENCE14
- SCIENCE11
- CONFERENCE17
- DIFFERENCE19
- INSURANCE11
- DANCE8
- DISTANCE11
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