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Patience

proper nouncommon in dialogue

  • //ˈpeɪʃəns//

A female given name from English.

proper noun

  1. 1

    A female given name from English.

    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."

  2. 2

    A surname.

Etymology

From patience, a virtue name first used by Puritans in the sixteenth century.

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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).