noun sufferance; permission.
2. patience ·noun solitaire.
3. patience ·noun constancy in labor or application; perseverance.
4. patience ·noun a kind of dock (rumex patientia), less common in america than in europe; monk's rhubarb.
5. patience ·noun the act or power of calmly or contentedly waiting for something due or hoped for; forbearance.
6. patience ·noun 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.