n.1 calm endurance of hardship, provocation, pain, delay, etc.
2 tolerant perseverance or forbearance.
3 the capacity for calm self-possessed waiting.
4 esp. Brit. a game for one player in which cards taken in random order have to be arranged in certain groups or sequences.
Phrases and idioms:
have no patience with
1. be unable to tolerate.
2 be irritated by.
Etymology: ME f. OF f. L patientia (as PATIENT)