patient

Willing to wait if necessary; not losing one's temper while waiting.

Be patient: your friends will arrive in a few hours.

Asari Cultural VI: Due to our lifespan-sometimes reaching 1,000 years of age-we are patient in our decisions, and prefer long-term solutions over short-term gains.

Constant in pursuit or exertion; persevering; calmly diligent.

patient endeavour

a patient wait

Physically able to suffer or bear.

To this outward structure was joined that strength of constitution, patient of severest toil and hardship; insomuch that for the most part of his life, in the fiercest extremity of cold, he took no other advantage of a fire, than at the greatest distance that he could, to look upon it.

A person or animal that receives health care from a doctor, nurse, dentist, allied health practitioner, or other person educated in health care.

Hello, is your practice currently accepting new patients? I'd like to become a patient there if so.

At the veterinary clinic, caring for the patients successfully and dealing with the patients’ owners successfully are both necessary skills.

The noun or noun phrase that is semantically on the receiving end of a verb's action.

The subject of a passive verb is usually a patient.

The number of a first or second person participant is generally marked for both agent and patient in all aspects.

One who, or that which, is passively affected; a passive recipient.

Malice is a passion so impetuous and precipitate, that it often involves the agent and the patient.

For it seems clear that the subject of change is the changed, i.e. the patient -- on one proviso. the proviso is that there be an agent or changer.

A surname.