Definitions
a card game played by one person
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“Musical perfection requires practice and a lot of patience.”
“I appreciate the patience with which you've explained it.”
“Meg had named it Patience. "But why?" he had exclaimed, not liking the name at all. "Patience is my favourite virtue," she had replied, "and we can call her Patty for short."”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Ability to wait calmly”8 letters
02“Ability to wait”8 letters
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