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patience
English
Etymology
From Middle English pacience, from Old French pacience (modern French patience), from Latin patientia. Displaced native Middle English thuld, thuild (“patience”) (from Old English þyld (“patience”)), Middle English thole (“patience”) (from Old Norse þol (“patience, endurance”)), Middle English bil?fing, bileaving (“patience, perseverance, remaining”) (from Old English bel?fan (“to endure, survive”)).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?pe???ns/
Noun
patience (usually uncountable, plural patiences)
- The quality of being patient.
- Any of various card games that can be played by one person. Called solitaire in the US. (card game).
Synonyms
- thild
- thole (obsolete, rare, or regional)
Antonyms
- impatience
Related terms
- passion
- passionate
- passive
- passivity
- patient
Descendants
- Sranan Tongo: pasensi
Translations
Further reading
- patience in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- patience in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
See also
- clock patience
- garden patience
French
Etymology
From Old French pacience, borrowed from Latin patientia.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /pa.sj??s/
Noun
patience f (plural patiences)
- patience
Derived terms
- perdre patience
- prendre son mal en patience
Related terms
- patient
Further reading
- “patience” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Middle English
Noun
patience
- Alternative form of pacience
patience From the web:
- what patience means
- what patience means to me
- what patience is a virtue means
- what patience teaches us
- what patience look like
- what patience is not
- what patient feels like
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hope
English
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) enPR: h?p, IPA(key): /h??p/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ho?p/
- Rhymes: -??p
Etymology 1
From Middle English hopen, from Old English hopian (“to expect, hope”), from Proto-West Germanic *hop?n, further etymology unclear.
Verb
hope (third-person singular simple present hopes, present participle hoping, simple past and past participle hoped)
- (intransitive, transitive) To want something to happen, with a sense of expectation that it might.
- To be optimistic; be full of hope; have hopes.
- (intransitive) To place confidence; to trust with confident expectation of good; usually followed by in.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms cxix. 81
- I hope in thy word.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms xlii. 11
- Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me? Hope thou in God.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Psalms cxix. 81
- (transitive, dialectal, nonstandard) To wish.
Usage notes
- This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
Derived terms
- here's hoping
- hoped for
Translations
See also
- aspire
- desire
- expect
- look forward
- want
Etymology 2
From Middle English hope, from Old English hopa (“hope, expectation”), from the verb hope.
Noun
hope (countable and uncountable, plural hopes)
- (countable or uncountable) The feeling of trust, confidence, belief or expectation that something wished for can or will happen.
- (countable) The actual thing wished for.
- (countable) A person or thing that is a source of hope.
- (Christianity, uncountable) The virtuous desire for future good.
- But now abideth faith, hope, love, these three; and the greatest of these is love.
Derived terms
Related terms
- forlorn hope
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English hope (“a valley”), from Old English h?p (found only in placenames). More at hoop.
Noun
hope (plural hopes)
- (Northern England, Scotland) A hollow; a valley, especially the upper end of a narrow mountain valley when it is nearly encircled by smooth, green slopes; a comb.
Etymology 4
From Icelandic hóp (“a small bay or inlet”). Cognate with English hoop.
Noun
hope (plural hopes)
- A sloping plain between mountain ridges.
- (Scotland) A small bay; an inlet; a haven.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Jamieson to this entry?)
Anagrams
- pheo, pheo-
Dutch
Pronunciation
Verb
hope
- (archaic) singular present subjunctive of hopen
Maori
Noun
hope
- waist
- hip (ringa hope)
Shona
Etymology
From the root of Common Bantu *d??kópè, whence also chikope (“eyelid”).
Noun
hópé 10
- sleep
West Frisian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ho?p?/
Noun
hope n (no plural)
- Alternative form of hoop
hope From the web:
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- what hope was there in seth's birth
- what hope means to me
- what hopeless romantic means
- what hopeless mean
- what hope an eden prophesied
- what hope does penelope receive
- what hope is there for the future
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