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# patience

«patience» in Mova's school dictionary: **Being able to wait calmly, or to keep trying, without…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (patience — uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Being able to wait calmly, or to keep trying, without getting angry or upset. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/#m1)

2) (UK) A card game for one person (called solitaire in the US). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In lessons on feelings and learning: patience helps when learning something hard, waiting your turn, caring for younger children or pets, and growing plants. Phrases: «lose patience», «run out of patience», «have patience», «patience is a virtue», «test someone's patience».

### examples

- Learning to play the violin takes patience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/#x1)
- Thank you for your patience while we wait. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/#x2)
- The teacher never loses patience with us. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/#x3)
- Fishing needs a lot of patience. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/#x4)
- Grandma likes playing patience with cards. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/#x5)
- My little brother tested my patience all day. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/#x6)
- Patience is a virtue. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/#x7)
- Have patience, and you will see. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/#x8)

### note

Uncountable: no «a patience» or «patiences». Homophone: «patients» (people being treated by a doctor) sounds the same — a common trap. Adjective: patient; opposite: impatience.

### In the corpora

- [You're enough to try the patience of an oyster!"](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/6-alice-ch3-part2-a-long-tale/17/)
- [Great discoveries are often stories of patience and luck.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/35-famous-discoveries-stories/0/)
- [Respect means treating people as they would want to be treated: with patience, kindness and without staring, teasing or taking over.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/0/)
- [A little patience and help go a long way.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/227-older-people-and-disabilities/2/)
- [Games can teach new words, planning, problem solving and patience.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/424-teamwork-strategy-and-minecraft-building/25/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «patience» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/patience/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.